Hymns of Sweet Comfort

I would like to share my own experience with "The Healing Power of Hymns" (Ensign, April 2008, 66).

One early October morning, my husband, at age 57, died unexpectedly of a heart attack. I remember that first Sunday after losing him, forcing myself up the sidewalk and into the chapel alone. It was so difficult to sit on that bench and feel the vacancy beside me. But then the opening song brought sweet comfort to me: "Lead, kindly light ... I do not ask to see the distant scene - one step enough for me" (Hymns, no. 97).