Build Me Up Again Trailer

2017 brought a difficult season for me. I found myself in a spot where several doors closed, and I walked away from a beloved job and place. I had sincerely thought I would be there, doing that, for the rest of my days, and thought God had future plans for my use there.
After finally resolving to resigning, grief became a very apparent state of mine. I would honestly sit at the piano and play and cry in the presence of the Holy Spirit. I felt comfort, and was certainly not sad AND alone, but most certainly brokenhearted in the presence of the High and Holy One.
Days passed like this, and one day my thought, in tearful frustration, was, “I have to re-look at the verse where God tells Jeremiah that He had plans to prosper him and not to harm him, plans for a future and a hope (ch. 29:11)- because NONE of this feels like prospering or not harming or hope, and future is what now looms like a big black hole to me!” What I found were God’s promises that although He had scattered Israel, He would gather them back. Like a salve to open wounds, the Holy Spirit poured a new hope into my soul - no longer merely seeing the ruins in which I felt I was sitting. "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness; I will build you up again..." and so began my hopeful climb out of a pit. Coming soon- the full song... Photo credit: Matt Artz