Our Hope Endures

      I have always loved this song and I actually sang it a few years back in church, but now it has so much more meaning! I heard it the other day for the first time in forever and couldn't believe how much it applies to my life. Not to applaud myself in any way at all, but so many people don't understand how with all that has happened to me that I can still have a positive attitude and stay strong. Of course I have bad days...days when I cry, don't think I can handle anything else, and feel blah and grouchy, but then God sweeps me off my feet and provides me with His strength and His hope! He is our Hope and all that we need no matter what our circumstances may be!

You would think only so much can go wrong
Calamity only strikes once
And you assume that 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 who's body is torn
With illness but she marches on
Oh, cause sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
Sometimes the sky rains night after night
When will it clear?

But our Hope enures 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

"Our Hope Endures" by Natalie Grant