the weary world rejoices.

Long lay the world in sin and error pining,

'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth.

A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,

For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.

When true love and peace appears, our souls may realize their worth.

When was the last time your soul felt its worth? When was the last time you could truly feel the weight of importance in your heart and your soul?

How beautiful to know that our souls, our lives, our hearts have meaning. We have purpose. There is worth in our soul. We are worth something.


For so long, we have lived with tired eyes, minds, hearts and souls. We desire something more, we pine for that which we cannot see.

Working with teenagers - people in general - reminds me constantly of the innate human desire to be needed. To feel as if we are attributing something good, or something real, to the bigger picture. There is such a struggle between man and his fellow man, between man and the Divine, that it's almost disheartening to live though on a daily basis. But, that's the incredible thing about this life we are given. There is struggle because we HAD to have been created for something more, something bigger. Something worth something.


The weary, tired and desperate world rejoices at the utter thrill of hope.

We are tired and incomplete, but there is something more. When he appears, our souls may feel their worth again. The world is thrilled by hope - that something bigger than us exists, and it existed long before we began to struggle, and it will continue to exist long after we are made perfect and whole.


For up ahead - a new, glorious and beautiful day is coming.

Before spring, there must be winter. Before hello, there must be goodbye. Before peace and joy, there must be brokenness and death.

Sometimes it takes a death to get our attention, to revive our souls. Of a loved one, of a relationship, of a piece of your heart. It's in the dying that we are set free and come to live again. We were given hope and we rejoice at the promise of new life - but it is only through death that we are given this opportunity. Our savior came into the world in order to die for us, and through it, he provided our rescue.

Parts of us may die, people we love may have to leave us, the old must be shed in order for the new to come. Take heart, a glorious day is coming. A day of reconciliation and hope. This too shall pass.

Truly He taught us to love one another;

His law is love and His gospel is peace.

Chains shall He break for the slave is our brother;

And in His name all oppression shall cease.

Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,

Let all within us praise His holy name.