Stronger than Hate

I'm feeling this song lately.  The lines in bold are my mantra as I'm starting this new year of life.  It's not an overtly Christian song, but there are clearly spiritual undertones, particularly in that second verse, and when you realize you can substitute "God" for "Love" every time...

You say you see no hope
You say you see no reason we should dream
That the world would ever change.
You're saying Love is foolish to believe.
'Cause there'll always be some crazy
With an army or a knife
To wake you from your daydream,
Put the fear back in your life.

Look, if someone wrote a play
Just to glorify what's stronger than hate,
Would they not arrange the stage
To look as if the Hero came too late?
He's almost in defeat;
It's looking like the evil side will win
So on the edge of every seat,
From the moment that the whole thing begins

It is Love who mixed the mortar
And it's Love who stacked these stones
And it's Love who made the stage here,
Although it looks like we're alone.
In this scene set in shadows
Like the night is here to stay,
There is evil cast around us,
But it's Love that wrote the play.
For in this darkness, Love can show the way.

Now the stage is set...
You can feel your own heart beating in your chest
This life's not over yet,
So we get up on our feet and do our best!
We play against the fear;
We play against the reasons not to try.
We're playing for the tears
Burning in the happy angel's eyes.

For it's Love who mixed the mortar
And it's Love who stacked these stones
And it's Love who made the stage here
Though it looks like we're alone.
In this scene set in shadows
Like the night is here to stay,
There is evil cast around us,
But it's Love that wrote the play.
For in this darkness, Love will show the way!

~Show the Way by David Wilcox

Other songs (mostly older ones) repeating on my playlist lately:

The Living Years - love the chorus and the harmonies on this one!  "Say it, say it, say it loud - say it clear.  You can listen as well as you hear."

Cruz by Christina Aguilera - arguably the best song on that album - about moving forward and feeling inspired and finding freedom - I love it!

Surface Pressure by Lin Manuel Miranda (from Encanto) - fantastic song about family pressure and what it might look like to let it go...

Madness by Muse - great beat, and it takes me back to a very specific season and friendship!

That's all for today! ❤