Our Hope Endures

I am often inspired by music when I am creating my art journal pages. For this particular page I was listening to a song by Natalie Grant called Our Hope Endures as the art washed over my journal page. If you have never journaled to music, it is a very moving experience. I can't imagine creating *without* music rushing through my mind, body, spirit, and soul. It makes the entire process a song...the movements my hands make, the colors, the stamps, the paints. It is a deeply moving process.

Layout created by me using my new Follow Your Art - Explore in my Digitals shop 4/2/12

Journaling reads-

You would think only so much can go wrong
 Calamity only strikes once
 And you assume this one has suffered her share
 Life will be kinder from here
How do we comprehend peace within pain?
 Or joy at a good man's wake?
 Walk a mile with the woman whose body is torn
 With illness but she marches on
 Oh, 'cause sometimes the sun stays hidden for years
 Sometimes the sky rains night after night
 When will it clear?
 But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
 It's more than our optimism
 Let the earth quake
 Our Hope is unchanged
Emmanuel, God is with us
 El Shaddai, all sufficient
 We never walk alone
 And this is our hope

~Natalie Grant