exquisite is an exquisite word. The plan of God is exquisite and magnificent. The contrast of despair and hope can be described as a most exquisite juxtaposition. I love the book of Ecclessiastes because it expresses precisely this. In 4:2-3 are written some of the most despairing words in all of Scripture, comparable only with passages such as Job 3, and Jeremiah 20:13-18. Yet in contrast, there are passages of hope and purposeful rejoicing, such as 2:24, 3:12, 3:22, 5:18-20, 8:15, 9:7-9, 11:7-12:1. It is so amazingly comforting to see that despair is in Scripture. This is so humanizing to realize that the most terrible things we experience and feel in the depths of the soul are not only okay to feel, but even are found in Scripture. When I read the despair in Scripture I know freedom, because here I find adequate expression of what is so often easier to hide, ignore, push down, squish further and further with hope that it might disappear and for once not lead to the inevitable explosion of all the fuming pressures that can finally no longer be contained. 
I wish I could find some sort of way to adequately express this wonder and amazement that seizes my soul when I am taken aback by this contrast. It happens again and again, and I am always just speechless, and am overwhelmed by the inadequacy of words. Can I make art about this gorgeous contrast? It is the most sublime feeling to be confronted with this juxtaposition. My soul is searching for some adequate expression. But perhaps that is part of knowing God; to glimpse the depths of how beyond our understanding his plan and will is, and to plummet yourself in that depth in abandon.