"Oh, Lord, crush the stinging serpent who poisons all our joys."In this collection of songs and essays, lament and love, sorrow and hope ring out even at the graveside, as God’s people ask how long until God’s dream for this world finally comes true? Until death, the last enemy, is entirely removed, and our long pilgrimage of faith finally brings us to the joy set before us—the face of Jesus? For God’s dream has not, in fact, died, and there truly is a lov...