Change
Darkness all around
Pain surrounds
Answers needed
Crying out
Nothing is right
People hurting
Evil winning
Questions asked
Hurting yet praying
Where is God
Nothing is changing
We are waiting
Expectations unmet
Thought it’d be different
No healing, no miracle
The world rages
Men in charge
Just want power
Don’t care about others
More rulers come
Assassinations
Expectations
Promises were told
Foretold
Time goes on
People living, people dying
Waiting,hoping
Promises unfulfilled
Years pass
Hope fades
Stories told
About times past
When God moved
When miracles happened
Nothing now
Waiting, groaning
Under the weight
Of life never changing
Prayers seem unanswered
Heaven is silent
Crying, yelling
Fighting, barely surviving
Hungering for more
Waiting for rescue
Someone to help
Someone to save
To fulfill promises
Made long ago
So long waiting
When will God move
Intervene!
Struggling, gasping
Hearts breaking
Life not changing
Then something happens
A star appears
Shepherds tell stories
Of angel rejoicing
A baby coming
Other stories
Of prophecies
In the temple
Dare we start hoping
But a baby, a poor baby
What does it mean
Men come from the East
Come to look for a king
They worship the baby
Bring Him gifts
But then they leave
Herod is angry
Babies murdered
Hearts breaking
Evil reigns
Was hope so short-lived
Waiting
Yet daring
Daring to hope
To believe
Years pass
Silence
Nothing changing
Then whispers
Whispers of hope
Of change
Something stirring
Whispers grow louder
Strengthening
Stories of miracles
A Man Who can heal
God must be intervening
Something is changing
Hope is rising
Change is coming
Amazing things happening
Healings, feedings
Happiness all around
Suddenly it ends
The miracle Man dies
Jesus Crucified!
Evil has won
Death has conquered
Darkness surrounds
Grief reigns
Then the unthinkable
Dead man walking
Jesus alive, resurrected!
Men out of graves
Walking in streets
Among the living
Death defeated
Everything changes
Yet nothing changes
Rome holds power
People martyred
Evil in control
Yet Jesus reigns
Hope has come
In the midst of waiting
Because the baby came
Jesus came, was crucified
Died and buried
But resurrected
Ascended to heaven
Seated on the throne
And now breathes hope
Into the midst of our waiting
That is the change
The one we needed
Hope in the midst of our pain
In the midst of our waiting