Tender Mercy
- Small, personal blessings — timely help, protection, or a well-placed coincidence — that a member reads as evidence of God's individual love and awareness.
The phrase comes from 1 Nephi 1:20 ("the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen") and was popularized as everyday member vocabulary by Elder David A. Bednar's April 2005 general conference talk "The Tender Mercies of the Lord." Since then, Latter-day Saints routinely describe a lucky break, an unexpected kindness, or a comforting moment as a "tender mercy," meaning they saw the Lord's hand in something small and specific to them.