Tonight is rich with sad melodies. One of the students at my university drowned in the ocean while at a DTS in Hawaii. His friends saw his dead body bobbing in the water but couldn’t reach him. They said he was smiling. Angry Israeli and Palestinian voices are threatening each other on the news with new force because of today’s assassination of one of the top leaders of Hamas. My students are feeling anxious about their presently leaderless country. I listened to one of the teachers at my school tell me over lunch how she’s been lonely having no one to talk to while she’s been preparing to have her first baby. She shrugged it off but I saw the sadness in her eyes. How did I not see it before? I’ve been feeling a new wave painful enlightenment about myself. And I’m listening to a song that has always brought inspired tears to my eyes…

I believe in faithfulness.
I believe in giving of myself for someone else.
I believe in peace and love.
I believe in honesty and trust
But it’s not enough
For all that I believe will never change the way it is unless…
I believe that Jesus lives

Where there is faith there is voice calling
“Keep walking, you’re not alone in this world”
Where there is faith
There is a peace like a child sleeping
Hope everlasting in He who is able to bear every burden, to heal every hurt in my heart
It is a wonderful, powerful place.
Where there is faith

There’s a man across the sea (this is the part that always brings tears to my eyes)
He’s never heard the sound of freedom ring
Only in his dreams
There’s a lady dressed in black
He’s not coming back
When our hearts to begin to fall and our stability grows weak
Jesus meets our needs
If we only believe

Where there is faith there is voice calling
“Keep walking, you’re not alone in this world”
Where there is faith
There is a peace like a child sleeping
Hope everlasting in He who is able to bear every burden, to heal every hurt in my heart
It is a wonderful, powerful place.
Where there is faith