In February, I attended the first Time Out for Women of 2010. This was my very first time in eight years to attend a TOFW without performing! I just got to soak in all the wonderful messages about “Infinite Hope” – the theme for this year. By the end of the day, after hearing messages that changed how I think and feel, I knew I had to write a song about hope!
There were two concepts taught that day that have stuck with me. You know how we are all told at one point or another not to “get our hopes up?” Amanda Dickson, one of the presenters and a local radio host/announcer made a case for just the opposite approach. Why not get our hopes up? What is so bad about getting our hopes up? “What is the worst that can happen?” she asked. Okay, so maybe we’ll be disappointed – but what is so bad about that? She talked about how sometimes our hopes are exceeded and that sometimes disappointments leads us to things that are better.
The second concept that has stayed in my heart is that our only true hope should be in Jesus Christ. Our hopes can’t be in a mortal person – that is too high of an expectation to place on someone – our hope must be in Christ. As I have put that principle to play in the last couple of months, I have found my heart softened in my relationships and drawn closer to the Savior.
So with those and many other thoughts about hope on my mind, I wrote “Hope on the Horizon.” I thought you might like to hear it – hot off the press, right out of the oven. (Kind of makes it sound like a Krispy Kreme…If there was a Krispy Kreme in front of me right now, I’d eat it in two bites. Maybe three.)
If I was nice, I’d let you hear the first verse and chorus. If I was really nice I’d even post through the second verse and chorus. But since I’m super, duper, really majorly, totally nice…I’m posting the entire song.
Yep.
The whole song.
Just “click” below and you can listen.
If you love it and want it on your iPod for your very own…then you can download it by clicking here.
hilary
