We have many sicknesses today in our tumultuous world, but Paul aptly labels one of the most

pervasive and contagious we'll call it the shaken in mind syndrome. Being shaken in mind is as deadly as it sounds like something that would make you really sick.

It is where stillness and stability and assure foundation have fled your mind and heart.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor and this is Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me Podcast. On 1st and 2nd Thessalonians,

be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled. We have a new podcast every Friday and the transcripts are at LatterdaySaintMag.com forward slash podcast.

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Thanks to Paul Cardol for the music that begins and ends this podcast, and we want to tell you why we chose come now found of every blessing as our signature. It's a tender story for us.

Seven years ago, our daughter Melissa died unexpectedly and as you can imagine, we were devastated.

I can still feel the tears inside of me which rise easily to the surface about this loss.

I remembered that when a friend lost a son, she told me that the Holy Ghost was around her like a blanket of comfort and warmth and I had hoped to feel that at such a devastating time.

But the comfort from the Lord just didn't come in that way for me. I had to learn to open my eyes to see the Lord's extended arm to soothe me.

Then one night, we were out to dinner in a restaurant that overlooked the Salt Lake Temple and we were talking tenderly and tearfully of our memories of Melissa.

A gifted pianist played all evening which sued our souls. These were popular songs and show tunes, but nothing spiritual.

We talked so long the restaurant emptied and we did not realize we were the last ones there except for the pianist.

After a few minutes of silence, she began to play the only spiritual song of the evening.

Come, thou found of every blessing. It was a song that night just for us.

As we left, we lingered at her piano to hear the rest of the song.

Did you play that for us, God asked? She said, I had put my music away and was ready to go when the spirit said, you need to play one more song.

Come, thou found of every blessing was a favorite of Melissa's. She had performed and recorded it with the BYU Women's Choir. When she was in college, she had mentioned it again just a few days before her death.

There couldn't have been a song that more clearly would identify to us that she lives and that the tender talk and the tears of that evening registered in heaven and were acknowledged on earth.

She seemed to be saying, I am here. And it was the Lord Himself who wiped our tears.

Phenomenal to our understanding as Latter-day Saints is the concept of the universal apostasy. It was a frequent theme for Paul who mentions it again in Thessalonians chapter 2.

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