The song "This Little Child" has always touched me.  Verse 2 expresses the hopelessness that we can feel, and the light Jesus is.

Many years have come and gone yet this world remains the same.

Empires have been built and fallen only time has made a change.

Nation against nation, brother against brother.

Men so filled with hatred, killing one another.

And over half the world is starving while our banner of decency is torn.

Debating over disarmament.  Killing children before they're born.

And fools who march to win the right to justify their sin.

Oh ev'ry nation that has fallen has fallen from within.

 Yet in the midst of this darkness

There is a hope, a light that burns.

This little child the King of kings some day return.

This video is a presentation by "Hands on Africa."  When you click on this organization, you will find that they have orphanages in Africa.  The writer of the song is Scott Wesley Brown who has over 25 albums.  I thank him for this song.