With Hope

Was remind by Roonz about my Steven Curtis Chapman collections, and I was listening to the music, and just found myself falling in love with this song all over again...

With Hope

This is not at all how we thought it was supposed to be...
We had so many plans for you, we had so many dreams,
And now you've gone away,
And left us with the memories of your smile...
And nothing we can say, and nothing we can do...
Can take away the pain, the pain of losing you...

But we can cry with hope, we can say goodbye with hope,
'Cos we know that our goodbye is not the end, oh, no...
And we can grieve with hope, 'cos we believe with hope...
That there's a place by God's grace,
There's a place where we'll see your face...again...

And never have i known anything so hard to understand...
And never have i questioned more the wisdom of God's plan,
But through the cloud of tears, I see the Father smile and say "Well done!"
And i imagine you where you wanted most to be,
Seeing all your dreams come true...
'Cos now you're home and now you're free...

And we can cry with hope, we can say goodbye with hope,
'Cos we know that our goodbye is not the end, oh, no...
And we can grieve with hope, 'cos we believe with hope...
That there's a place by God's grace,
There's a place where we'll see your face...again...
We'll see your face again...

We have this hope as an anchor...
'Cos we believe that everything God promised us is true...

And we wait with hope...
And we ache with hope...
We hold on with hope...
We let go with hope...