Hope for the Hopeless

Brett Dennen's new album, titled Hope for the Hopeless, is entirely amazing.

Nine bucks as a download at Amazon, or thirteen and a half if you're one of those folks who still wants the tangible CD.

Dennen is one of those people who gets it, I think--he recognizes the problems of the world, is even a bit cynical, but tempers that recognition and cynicism with an unyielding optimism.

It makes me think about this bit from Isaiah:

Therefore hath judgment been far from us,
   And righteousness reacheth us not,
We wait for light, and lo, darkness,
   For brightness -- in thick darkness we go,

We feel like the blind for the wall,
   Yea, as without eyes we feel,
We have stumbled at noon as at twilight,
   In desolate places as the dead.

And yet, there is still faith that there is light.