John Mark McMillan | 6 years ago

John Mark McMillan's first-ever Christmas record "Smile In The Mystery" is out now! Stream or download it wherever you listen to your favorite music. Hope you enjoy all season long! http://smarturl.it/SmileInTheMystery

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'INVISIBLE, HOPE GROWS" - A POEM BY JOHN MARK MCMILLAN

Invisible, hope grows
Even while the powerful sleep

Maybe she calls to us from the margins
From the other side of our fences and castle walls

Would you know her if she knocked on your door?
Would you see her in her fragile state?
Would you welcome her in?
Or have you no room?
Is your heart too heavy?
Hands too full?

Would you send her away?
To be discovered by the graveyard shift, wandering stargazers, hopeless dreamers, the broken, and the beasts...

Well, this is the audience of angels
Even while the powerful sleep

Invisible, hope grows
Hidden in plain sight, timid and weak

But like a woman, early with child
The world appears quite the same
Still her universe has fundamentally shifted
A new trajectory has been drawn
A new day begins to dawn even
In the darkest violence of hateful night

Invisible, hope grows
Under the nose of presidents, priests, and kings…
Invisible, hope grows
Even while the powerful sleep


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Filmed and edited by Benjamin Roberts
Instagram: @benjaminjroberts

Song featured: "Silent Night / Smile In The Mystery" by John Mark McMillan off the new record "Smile In The Mystery"