Lament & Hope: Prayers & Teaching for Justice and Peace

Hope Whispers

April 10, 2023 Rev'd Jon Swales
Lament & Hope: Prayers & Teaching for Justice and Peace
Hope Whispers
Show Notes

Words and voice: Jon Swales
Beats- Chris Sayburn

Hope whispers my name,

And speaks to my soul.

‘Rest a while,

I have a healing balm and will tend your wounds.’


I counter,

‘But have you seen the pain,

The poison runs deep,

The beasts run wild.’


And hope speaks,

And addresses my wounded heart,

‘Indeed, 

I know.

The night is darkest just before the dawn.


On cursed tree,

Through whip and nail,

The evil of empire,

& the sickness of sin

sinned against me. 

Alone in pain. 

I breathed my last ‘


Downcast I spoke

‘The beast has won .

As hope lies silent in the grave.

In the book of life evil will have the last word’


And hope rejoiced 

And laughed and sang, 

A song of healing love,

‘My beloved one,

This is not true, 

The grave did not win.

I was raised to life.

Evil does not have the last word.

Love wins’


And I wept,

And he wiped the tears from my face. 

Hope embraced me in his love,

I beheld his face.

We danced

He is making all things new. 


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