Dare To Hope

Questions drive the first verse: how do you pick up the pieces of a torn-apart home, and how do you believe for healing with a grieving heart? The answer comes in one line, "It's only by the hope of Jesus," where light "bursts through the dark to meet us where we are."

The chorus insists that hope "can't be shaken by fear" and "can't be taken by force," while God "still carries the weight of this broken world." The second verse pushes further, promising that deepest heartache will "become holy ground" because Jesus "turned a cross of suffering into my victory now." His blood is named as the reason a life can be found.

A run of petitions follows, each answered with "Dare to hope": for healing, for family, for the future, for the grieving, for a neighbor, even for enemies. The final lines sit in the dark where the singer can't see or breathe and still choose hope. Romans 15:13 and Isaiah 61:3, beauty in place of ashes, fit that movement from ruin to confidence.