My Very First Post Ever!!

Life has become so crazy lately. I find myself longing to pour out my heart and find comfort, but no one around me understands. Pain pushes people away, I guess - and one by one, our friends are slowly stepping back from us. A particular friend, I recently learned, didn't want to tell me that she's pregnant and has been avoiding me since she started showing. She even stopped coming to our Bible study. (Nice.)

So I had the brilliant idea to start a blog! I need a place where I can let everything out, without worrying that I'm going to lose yet another friend because I was a little too transparent (or because I let the hormones get the better of me and went a little crazy). I chose the title "Hope Endures" because of a Natalie Grant song that has really inspired me lately:

Our Hope Endures (Natalie Grant)

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
Oh, but 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

How do we comprehend peace within pain?
Or joy at a good man's wake?
Walk a mile with the woman whose body is racked
With illness, oh how can she laugh?
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

But our Hope endures the worst of conditions
It's more than our optimism
Let the earth quake
Our Hope is unchanged

So let the blogging adventure begin...