HOPE IS RISING
The story of how this EP came into being is just so beautiful and such a testimony to the goodness of God. When we started out on this journey we literally had nothing other than the songs that had been placed on my heart. Songs that had been borne out of encounters and intimate moments with the Father and crafted with such love and a longingness to share.
We gave God our ‘not a lot’ and watched as He made a way. He put kindhearted and generous people around us who selflessly gave up their time to record and produce the music and to design and create the beautiful artwork. To you we are forever grateful. He supplied finances when they were needed and support and encouragement from so many treasured people within our community who never stopped cheering us on.
We hope that as you listen to these songs they will bless you. May you know how special you are and how much God loves you and may you be encouraged because He sees you, He is for you and He is a God of the impossible!
Louise
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Hope is Rising (Cry no More)
There is a story behind this song and video. When my middle son was about 8yrs old he went to spend an evening in the woods with his Cub group. His Grandad had dropped him off at the usual spot earlier in the evening and I was picking him up. When I got there it was really dark, so dark I couldn’t see my hand in front of my face. I could see the warm glow of the camp fire not too far away and I made my way over using the torch on my iPhone for light. I scanned all the sweet little faces sat around the fire, but couldn’t see my boy. I asked one of the adult helpers and turns out that this wasn’t his Cub group. My boy’s group was at a different camp deeper in the woods. I could just see in the distance the glow of another campfire, but it looked so far away and I immediately started to panic. Fear took a hold of me. I had no idea where my boy was. Did he make it to his camp? or was he still wondering around in the woods lost? Somehow I had to make it over to this other camp, but in the darkness, it looked like you’d need a car to reach it.
In my panicked state I set off and as I stumbled around in the darkness, praying all would be well, I noticed something. The closer I got to the light the more expansive it became and the darkness began to shrink away. My fear was being replaced with hope! and with each new step I took that hope was rising up within me. The revelation of who God is struck me again. God is light, He is hope, He is love. Darkness has no power or authority over Him and if He lives in me darkness has no power or authority over me! I stepped into the full light of the campfire and there before me was my boy!
When I look back at that evening I am reminded so much of John 1:5 “ The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”. He is the light of the world and whoever follows him will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life. I will cry no more.
Louise x
