Hope is a fascinating thing. Sometimes it is the perfect key to motivate us to keep pushing on when things are hard. When things are not what we want. It’s so simple, yet so powerful! It’s something we all have access to, no matter our situation in life. We simply need to seek it out and embrace it. So, wherever you are in life, let Hope lead you too. You won’t regret where it can take you.
I thought this road was dark and bare
But Hope was waiting, hiding there.
Like a friend I couldn’t spare
Hope was waiting there with care.
Like a friend I couldn’t see
Waiting around the bend for me.
Waiting there to cheer me on
Like the first rays of the dawn.
With each drop of Hope I found,
As I wound around each hill and mound,
My heart began to take delight
As the road emerged from dark to light.
At first disguised as many things –
A child’s smile, butterfly wings.
It then transformed to so much more
And invited me to faith’s front door.
Always there reminding me
That life is not so dark you see.
As the road, I soon did see
Hope lifted up and strengthened me.
Gave me courage, my pain to shed
As it filled the cracks and slowly spread.
Spread throughout my broken heart.
Filled it up, each wounded part.
Gave me courage to push ahead.
Gave me courage to go where lead.
Gave me courage to see the good
The way that only it ever could.
Reminded me life’s still okay,
Even faced with deep dismay.
Even though fear may make it flee
The battle’s already been won for me.
And so, I keep right, pressing on
Knowing Hope is in the dawn.
Waiting there to spread its light.
Waiting there to spread delight.
Waiting there to grow and bloom
If I’ll simply give it room.
If your road too, is deep despair
Take heart – Hope is waiting, hiding there.