Hope is a word that gets thrown around a lot these days. "I hope I get an "A" on my test" or "I hope I can come to the show next week," but the truth is, real tangible hope gets left by the door like a pair of shoes we have outgrown. Our world feels pretty hopeless. Almost every time I turn on the news, I hear terrible stories about how the world is falling apart or how 100 people died because of some car bomb. It breaks my heart. Then it numbs me. Then it is just plain exhausting. I know you can agree. It all feels hopeless, and it only seems to be getting worse.

But...
A year or two ago something clicked for me. After years of writing mostly sad and cynical songs and viewing the world through a hopeless lens, I had an epiphany. The world is not hopeless!! It changed my life and it changed the direction of my musical career forever. I started to see glimmers of this in my lyrics. Even among some of the darker tones, the theme of hope was still visible. I couldn't escape it, and it was a wonderful feeling