Gethsemane: The Story Behind the Song Every Latter-day Saint Child Wanted to Sing with Melanie Hoffman
In this episode of Why We Believe,with host Nathan Gwilliam, award-winning songwriter Melanie Hoffman shares the canyon drive when words for Gethsemane hit her like a thunderbolt after months of fearing how to explain Christ's suffering to children. She sat at her kitchen table and words poured out as she wept through writing the bridge about the hardest thing ever done and the greatest pain ever known. Every child who received the album wanted to sing that one song.
Years later, a Tabernacle Choir member told Nathan this would go down in history as their greatest recording. After videos by…
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