Chris' prayer: Bebo Norman's "How You Love Me"

I've had a little while to think about this song, the first song in my journey. The playlist I'll be going by was created about two weeks ago, so I've known that this will be the first song for about 14 days...far longer than I'll get for any other song.

I've spent that time thinking of what I was going to say about this one, one of my favorite songs right now. I've thought of about 20 different directions I could take this prayer in, and decided on one this morning on my way to work.

Then I began the prayer and everything changed.

The word that caught me, the word that changed everything for me, is there in the first line, repeated to make sure that I caught it.

Hope came home, home to me today...

Hope belongs in every one of us. It is a part of us. It is in our nature. As Norman says in the song, hope is at home when it resides inside of our very being. And when it finally returns home, no matter how long it has been gone nor where it has gone, it replaces the troubles that have been on our heart. Whether that be impending finals, wondering if you're going to have a job next month, issues between you and a family member or friend, or, in my case, an all encompassing, possibly irrational fear that my car is going to break down and not knowing how I'm going to be afford to fix it. None of these fears, none of these troubles, is at home in our hearts.

Only hope.

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