I wanted to share this with everyone… It’s a piece the Youth Chorale performed at Marionettes’ last concert. In these times, I think the message rings and sings as truly as ever…
Quoting from a Russian folk tune, composer Z. Randall Stroope arranged a stunning choral and instrumental piece called “INSCRIPTION OF HOPE”. Based on fragments of Jewish text found on a cellar wall in Cologne, Germany during World War II, it is believed to have been scrawled by a child hiding from the Nazis.
I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
even when there’s no one there
And I believe in God
even when [s]he is silent
I believe through any trial
there is always a wayBut sometimes in this suffering
and hopeless despair
My heart cries for shelter
to know someone’s there
But a voice rises within me saying,
‘Hold on my child;
I’ll give you strength, I’ll give you hope
Just stay a little while…”I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining
And I believe in love
even when there’s no one there
And I believe in God
even when [s]he is silent
I believe through any trial
There is always a wayMay there someday be sunshine
May there someday be happiness
May there someday be love
May there someday be peace.
Blessings for 2008.
Caroline Taylor 
It’s not Russian folk song. It has authors and it was completely stolen.
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