Hope 09 - Light
Last night before our church Session meeting (leadership team), several of us read the passage that was my selected passage for yesterday (Monday) - Psalm 119 - This is the longest (by far) of the Psalms and its a beautiful meditation upon God's Word. Hope shows up many many times and as we read through most of it (it was too long to get through all of it before the meeting began), several of us were drawn to what is possibly the most well known part of the Psalm - while it doesn't use the word "hope", hope is throughout what is said in verse 105 -
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Then this morning, I was heading to the gym and listening to U2's new album and the song "13 (Song for Someone)" came on. Something about that song, about what is stirring in me and around me, about Psalm 119, and specifically about the light in the darkness - just grabbed me. Lord, be the light to my path...
Here is the youtube link and the lyrics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogKgW3_E_Q4
And if the terrors of the night Come creeping into your days And the world comes stealing children from your room Guard your innocence from hallucination And know that darkness always gathers around the light
If there is a light We can’t always see If there is a world We can’t always be If there is a dark Now we shouldn’t doubt And there is a light Don’t let it go out
When the wind screams and shouts And the sea is a dragon’s tail And the ship that stole your heart away Sets sail
When all you’ve left is leaving And all you got is grieving And all you know is needing
If there is a light We can’t always see If there is a world We can’t always be If there is a dark Now we shouldn’t doubt And there is a light Don’t let it go out
‘Cause this is a song A song for someone Someone like me
I know the world is done But you don’t have to be I’ve got a question for the child in you before it leaves Are you tough enough to be kind? Do you know your heart has its own mind? Darkness gathers around the light Hold on Hold on
There is a light We can’t always see If there is a world We can’t always be If there is a dark That we shouldn’t doubt And there is a light Don’t let it go out
And this is a song A song for someone This is a song A song for someone Someone like me Someone like me Someone like me