Hope Now

I have another song in my head today, 'Hope Now' by Addison Road. Here are the lyrics (and the link will take you to the video on YouTube):

If everything comes down to love
Then just what am I afraid of
When I call out Your name
Something inside awakes in my soul
How quickly I forget I'm Yours

I'm not my own
I've been carried by You
All my life

Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow
When the world has broken me down
Your love sets me free

When my life is like a storm
Rising waters all I want is the shore
You say I'll be OK and
Make it through the rain
You are my shelter from the storm

Everything rides on hope now
Everything rides on faith somehow

You've become my hearts desire
I will sing Your praises higher
Cause Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free
Your love sets me free

I feel hopeful today. Micah came home from the Denver mission trip yesterday, tired, dirty, missing his ipod, but home! Seeing Grace hug him and tell him over and over how she loves him was so sweet! Our family is back together! Micheal has been working almost 3 weeks now and will get his first whole paycheck this Friday and I get paid tomorrow. Funny how hopeful money makes you feel! I had a pretty great morning with Grace, no screaming, crying or anything! She's still kind of clingy when we leave her anywhere, but we think that's her reaction to getting used to Micheal being gone and hope it's a passing phase. And I feel hope from all the change I see in me! I know God is always at work, but when I see and feel the change in me, I am still awed by the very thought that the Great Big God of the Universe cares enough about me to not leave me the same!

And I'll detail those changes as I can put them in words. (Soon)