It is truly one of the great things that God gives us...change.
Though often scarier than not, it is essential and this heavenly A.D.D. He bestowes/imposes allowed my day yesterday to turn.
All it took was music.
Have you noticed how powerful the senses are? And how one will almost always overshadow another? For example, if you are driving and you have no idea where you are going, you have to turn the radio down in order to follow the directions? Or if you are really enjoying the sounds of something...that one song that takes you away, do you not close your eyes to sing it? Why is that?
Anyway, yesterday I put on my iPod shuffle with abuut 13 songs. I had to walk through the park and knew it would take me about 20 minutes. A song came up, not one I am willing to admit right here, and everything CHANGED.
Suddenly, the sun was hitting the buildings in all ways glorious. People were smiling....children were laughing and running about. There are brief moments when you see the face of a child and you could swear, for that instant, you are looking at God Himself...or at least what He intended.
My favorite moment was on Central Park West ( I was huffin' now and my pace was passing a family up on the left). I went to 'pass' and saw a tiny boy, maybe 3, holding so tightly to his granny's neck. He had no shirt on and you could tell she was struggling to keep him steady but I have never seen a more beautiful expression on any 2 faces. She never wanted to let go and he was never going to. He loved his granny. The way he looked at her took my breath away.
I was instantly taken back to summers at the lake in Tennessee, being held by my daddy, the warmth of his body and the towel he had just put around my shoulders the way only a daddy can....hot and sweaty, I was happily glued to him with my sticky, just eaten ice pop fingers around his neck and my face burried there, where beads of sweat gathered above his collar bone.
The song finsished on my iPod Shuffle and rather than 'shuffle' I hit repeat.
I listened to that song a few more times.
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Saylee,been reading your blog and I found it disgusting yet amusing ( with all that stuff about periods and such ) you would think that after living around so many women for so many years that I would be used to the female maladies- but no. I have moved on , I am now doing a first hand study on Menapause ( somebody help me ! )
I've been trying to guess what song it could have been that put your psyche into such an up-swing, Hmmm, could it have been Free Bird ?
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