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


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