it feels like it might be hope

i've been listening to Sara Groves non stop the last few days. she has several new songs that are really beautiful but it might be hope has resonated with me in really powerful ways. she writes about the way sometimes hope sneaks up on you and in the midst of a season of darkness something strikes you and ....

it's been a while since i felt this
but it feels like it might be hope

i feel like hope has hope has turned its face to me in that beautiful, gentle way that makes me stop and say "it feels like it might be hope."

and then tonight loneliness snuck up on me in a similar way. in a way that was a sharp ache in the soul that makes my breath catch in my throat a bit. (does that make sense at all???)

in some ways it was a good reminder. hope and loneliness are not opposites. rather hope says that this lonely ache is not the end of the story. and because of that hope and loneliness can coexist.