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🎵We Thank Thee, Lord, for This New Day | The Tabernacle Choir
Performed during Music and the Spoken Word
Episode 5047
Experience this inspiring performance of “We Thank Thee, Lord, for This New Day” presented by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square as part of Music and the Spoken Word.
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🎵We Thank Thee, Lord, for This New Day | The Tabernacle Choir
Performed during Music and the Spoken Word
Episode 5047
Experience this inspiring performance of “We Thank Thee, Lord, for This New Day” presented by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square as part of Music and the Spoken Word.
Let the music uplift your spirit and bring peace to your day.
How to find us! @thetabernaclechoir
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![My Brothers Keeper | Spoken Word #5027, January 18, 2026
Sixteen hundred years ago, Saint Augustine pondered a timeless question: How do we decide whom we are to aid? He wrote, “Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special [attention] to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you.”
His counsel remains just as relevant today. Each of us has opportunity—even responsibility—to pay special attention to those who are brought into connection with us.
Connection is a word we hear often today. Yet even as technology links the world more closely than ever, nothing can replace the value of one human being noticing and doing good for another.
In many ways, a human being is like a flower. When a flower receives the right amount of light, air, and nutrients, it opens and blossoms, revealing its beauty. But without those favorable elements, it closes its petals to protect itself, hiding its natural beauty. Likewise, we each need the light, air, and nutrients of human love, friendship, acceptance, and belonging—nutrients that allow us to open, to flourish, and to fully blossom.
One way we receive these nutrients, these warm feelings in our hearts, is by offering them to others. The New Testament reads: “Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for [the[our] brethren. But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.”
May we each, as a beloved hymn pleads, “be [our] brother’s keeper.” May we show “gentle heart[s]” to those whose “sorrow[s]” our “eye[s] can’t see”—to the “wounded,” to the “weary.”
May we do our part to help the light of Jesus Christ shine brightly for others, healing and helping the human flowers in the fields of life surrounding us to blossom. As we do so, we will find the light of His love growing within us. For Jesus Christ is a light that is endless, a light that can never be darkened. My Brothers Keeper | Spoken Word #5027, January 18, 2026](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_Cs2vTGr0Ic/mqdefault.jpg)




![Water the Roots | Spoken Word #5035 March 15, 2026
The beauty of a tree is often described by the magnificence of its leaves. Their brilliant colors, unique shapes, and defining features each contribute to a tree’s splendor.
But while the beauty of a tree can be found in its leaves, its true strength and power lie in its roots.
The roots of a tree are unseen yet essential. They anchor the tree against the storm while drawing and storing vital nutrients and water for the season ahead. Healthy roots then feed the leaves, allowing them to fully flourish.
People, in a way, are like trees—each with leaves and roots. And like a tree, the leaves of our lives are seen and often talked about, but the roots are not. Because of this, it can be easy to overly focus on increasing the beauty of our leaves while neglecting the crucial strength of our roots.
Simply put, if you want a tree—or a soul—to flourish, water the roots, not the leaves. Healthy roots lead to beautiful leaves.
Watering the roots of our souls means taking time to be holy each day. As we unplug and become still—even if for only a few minutes—our roots receive spiritual nourishment. Talking with God in prayer, searching His scriptures for direction, and quietly contemplating what He would have us do enable the roots of our souls to soak up heavenly feelings. Those heavenly feelings yield a new confidence that travels all the way to the leaves of our lives.
Perhaps the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah said it best as he spoke on behalf of the Lord, promising: “Blessed is the [one] that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not [fear] when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
Taking time today to nourish our spiritual roots ensures that we can stand strong tomorrow, even amid the heat of the day and the storms of life. As the book of Proverbs reminds us, “The root of the righteous shall not be moved.” Water the Roots | Spoken Word #5035 March 15, 2026](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bZGCWqoWWB8/mqdefault.jpg)
