One of my favorite parts of my work is looking over my notes before I go to teach and picturing how the Word and words God has given me will impact the people there. This morning, as I was doing this, I thought of all of you who read this blog and wondered:
“How’s your hope today?” Tracing Mary’s story from the moment Gabriel says “nothing is impossible with God” to the day when she stands watching Jesus hanging on the Cross, I thought of the sweet moments of hope intermingled with the seasons of hopes crushed.
Don’t have time to find a performance on Youtube now but I’ll bet you can…Look up Natalie Grant’s song Our Hope Endures and listen and meditate. If you can’t find it, here are the words. I do hope we all remember the only source of hope unchanged today.
You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume this one has suffered her share
Life will be kinder from here
Oh, but sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?
But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It’s more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged
How do we comprehend peace within pain?
Or joy at a good man’s wake?
Walk a mile with the woman whose body is racked
With illness, oh how can she laugh?
Oh, ’cause sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?
But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It’s more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged
Emmanuel, God is with us
El Shaddai, all sufficient
We never walk alone
And this is our hope
But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It’s more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged
