Commissioned by The Wartburg Choir and Dr. Lee Nelson, and premiered at Christmas at Wartburg in 2019. This genre-bending piece- blending elements of rock, gospel, spiritual, and spoken word- is appropriate year round, but has special resonance in the season of Advent, when we wait with longing hearts- hearts at times filled with joy, but at times filled with heaviness. The text of the piece recalls iconic stories of rescue and promise in the Old Testament, and invites the chorus and listener to imagine those promises coming true today- and to imagine a world of mercy, justice, peace, and compassion.