Hope is in understanding my own limitations:
my smallness frames my lack of power,
and brings it into perspective--
I cannot change the world.
I cannot even change myself.

And despair would begin there,
if I were the only power, sole changer of things.
But hope is in understanding my own limitations--
I cannot change the world.
I cannot even change myself.

Yet my smallness frames my lack of power,
and brings it into perspective--
I am not the only power, sole changer of things.
There is Another, greater changer
and hope is in understanding the power He brings.

This Greater Changer delights in my lack of power--
opportunity flows from my own limitations.
He chooses the small, the powerless:
thus, my smallness frames the hope of the world,
to the glory of God, sole changer of things.