"When everything's dark, and nothing seems right/ there's nothing to win, and there's no need to fight." These words come not from the Bible but the band Supertramp. Many people have despaired recently over our government's treatment of immigrants and our own UMC's treatment of the "incompatible" among us. Hosea tells of a God whose passionate and revolutionary love is our sure hope in times of trial. Hosea 11:1-9