Moses 7:28 is a pretty shocking part of our scriptural canon. Seeing how much the people of earth were going to suffer and all the mortal hardships the Plan of Salvation would engender, “it came to pass that the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and he wept.” Scripturally, canonically, our God’s heart can break. If you haven’t yet experienced sadness that feels like it could be so heavy as to make God weep, odds are we all will by the end of our lives. In turn, we might also imagine that God can feel joy commensurate with that level of sadness, joy that “swells as wide as eternity,” in the subsequent words of Enoch. Many of us probably feel as though we have glimpsed just a bit of this at one time or another, in holding newborn babies, reuniting with loved ones, or perhaps when practicing forgiveness. Bishop Black asked me to draw on President Nelson’s October 2016 conference talk “Joy and Spiritual Survival” for my remarks today. This talk is the source of the well-...