Our Hope Endures

It has been some kind of week over here at UFC HQ.  Jam-packed full of extra classes, extra hours at my day job, and a scare with The Big C.

See, The Man had some funny blood tests, so they sent him for a CT scan on Wednesday.  That turned up a spot that was described to him as either a cyst or cancer.  I spent Thursday and today wondering what we would do if it were the Big C.  Fortunately, today's MRI revealed it to be a cyst.

At times like this, when so many tasks and stresses seem to converge, I'm grateful that a dear friend introduced me to this here song...

"Our Hope Endures" by Natalie Grand

You would think
only so much can go wrong.
Calamity only strikes once.
And you assume
that this one has suffered her share,
so 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 can we
comprehend peace within pain?
Or joy at a good man's wake?
So walk a mile
with a woman whose body is torn
with illness, but she marches on.

Emmanuel, God is with us.
El-Shaddai, All Sufficient.
Emmanuel, God is with us.
El-Shaddai, All Sufficient.
Emmanuel, God is with us.
El-Shaddai, All Sufficient.
We never walk alone,
and this is our hope.