First Monday of Advent: "Only Hope" - by Switchfoot

This is two days late I know, but I have been busy getting a house put together.  Today's song is one I recently heard, it is from one of my favorite movies/books: A walk to Remember.  In the movie Mandy Moore sings it, but I like the Switchfoot version better because I don't picture the love scene as much.

Here is the video:



The Lyrics:
                                                                  

There's a song that's inside of my soul
It's the one that I've tried to write over and over again
I'm awake in the infinite cold
But You sing to me over and over again

So I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands
and pray to be only Yours
I pray to be only Yours
I know now you're my only hope

Sing to me the song of the stars
Of Your galaxy dancing and laughing
and laughing again
When it feels like my dreams are so far
Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again

And I lay my head back down
And I lift my hands and pray 
To be only yours
I pray to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope

I give You my apathy
I'm giving You all of me
I want Your symphony
Singing in all that I am
At the top of my lungs I'm giving it back

A short reflection:

This song never spoke to me about hope before, I just liked the song, but really listen to the lyrics and I feel it speaks to me so much.  There are several lines that pop out at me:

"There's a song that's inside of my soul" - I am no singer, but I feel part of me is bound up inside and cannot get out.  I feel like this is so true for so many of us, whether it is to be a mother, to be a spiritual mother, to make an impact, etc.  For me I feel the best part of me is trapped inside. 

"I know now you're my only hope" - There is the title of the song.  In God alone is our hope, our only hope.  The only way to get the best part of me out is to allow me to do it.  There is simply no other way.

 

"Sing to me of the plans that You have for me over again" -  I conitnue to pray that God keeps whispering those plans for me and each one of you.  We will eventually hear them when we are ready and not a moment before.  We can have hope in that, we can have trust in that.

This advent, I am making that my prayer, to have the hope that God will reveal his plans to me, to tear down barriers so I can know Him better.