Song Of The Week - March 6

Well, March Break ends today, doesn't it? It always goes by too fast, I wish it was as long as summer :P, that'd help a bit. But it can't be, life goes back to normal on Monday, after Daylight Savings Time destroys our sleep haha. It was good while it lasted though. This week marks three months of SOTWs lol, I didn't think there would be enough good stuff to keep it going at the start, but I guess life's full of surprises. This week, we've got some Canadian talent for the SOTW! Yes, Canadians have talent hahaha! A lot of it too, it seems.

Hope Is Rising - Downhere, Ending Is Beginning

"From the darkness/From the pain/From the fall and from the grave"

Hope. It drives us. It sustains us. It gives us the courage to see another day. You can't get through much of the world today if you don't have hope. Hope that things will get better, that the clouds will roll away, or that you won't always feel the hurts and the pains you feel right now. As Christians, we have put our hope in Jesus, and sometimes we forget that He is our hope, and that He gives us the courage to see another day...

If memory serves, Downhere is a band from right here in Atlantic Canada, Nova Scotia if I'm not mistaken. I'd always hear their names with other regional bands such as Three Season Ant, and unfortunately, tuned out to them. It wasn't until Wide Eyed and Mystified became the thing of the moment that I really started to look for some of their stuff. In fact, I downloaded this album, but it was Pastor Matt (Palmer :P) that really got me to listen to it completely. I owe him a little for getting me on that.

Hope Is Rising is an amazingly uplifting song. The strings make it even more exuberant, and while strings are almost trite in today's music, their emotional impact value is not hampered in the least. For me, the song is trying to tell the listener that there is always hope, even in the most trying of times, even when all seems lost, even when it seems that the best option is to give up and submit... I just find it an amazing piece of truth, and I would honestly have to ask what was wrong with someone if their spirits didn't soar a little after hearing what this song has to give to them. Downhere definitely activated the Holy Spirit with this one hahaha!

The part that gets me the most is the ending, which I typed at the beginning of the post: From the darkness, from the pain, from the fall and from the grave. Meanwhile, a choir is singing those three words, hope is rising, while the song goes for a climactic crescendo. Hope is rising from darkness, from our hurts, our failures, and by our Savior's resurrection. It's an amazingly well done song, which proves not only that Canadians have talent, they can also speak and minister with startling power. I'm more than happy to deem this Song Of The Week; it's an honour that the piece highly deserves.

Hope Is Rising - http://www.mediafire.com/?2mjh3nukynq