A friend shared this song with me 10 days after my youngest son was born and right when my spouse was diagnosed with cancer. I told her I'd listen to it when I could listen to music without getting emotional......my son is 3 1/2.....and I listened to the song this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLtyzRgmyI
I couldn't listen to music for a while after my mom died back in 97. Even going to church, especially going to church, was a crap shoot. I'd hear one of her favorite hymns, get choked up, and the tears would start rolling. Within a few years I worked myself back to music...and back to church....and had a good season of listening, performing, practicing, etc. I even took a few fiddle lessons.
So I went through a musical drought again three years ago. In the last few months I've been listening to music, we added a piano to our home - in order to keep the music growing - and I've been playing the violin as part of my stand up comedy gigs - another new thing.
Today I'm excited to wake up to the fact that I've come through the drought, my ears and heart are open, and I'm facing the music without even thinking about it.
As Mary Chapin Carpenter says,
"I'm not running
I'm not hiding
I'm not reaching
I'm just resting in the arms of the great wide open
Gonna pull my soul in
And I'm almost home."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uLtyzRgmyI
I couldn't listen to music for a while after my mom died back in 97. Even going to church, especially going to church, was a crap shoot. I'd hear one of her favorite hymns, get choked up, and the tears would start rolling. Within a few years I worked myself back to music...and back to church....and had a good season of listening, performing, practicing, etc. I even took a few fiddle lessons.
So I went through a musical drought again three years ago. In the last few months I've been listening to music, we added a piano to our home - in order to keep the music growing - and I've been playing the violin as part of my stand up comedy gigs - another new thing.
Today I'm excited to wake up to the fact that I've come through the drought, my ears and heart are open, and I'm facing the music without even thinking about it.
As Mary Chapin Carpenter says,
"I'm not running
I'm not hiding
I'm not reaching
I'm just resting in the arms of the great wide open
Gonna pull my soul in
And I'm almost home."
