Tuesday, April 05, 2005
This is Everything
I've closed the daycare, and the toys are almost all gone. The last few days I've thought about what it represented. A dream, a positive change in lifestyle. I wanted to be able to positively impact the lives of little people. To show them that no matter what happened in their lives either good or bad, they could be resilient. You know, there are many things we can't control, but we do control our response to those things.
As I was listening to Audio Adrenaline, I looked through their booklet of words. Here's what I found.
All my dreams I had dreamed were dreams of me
All my hopes were desires of what I wanted to be
With ambitions put aside I crawl in Your arms to hide
I have given everything up to You.
This is all
This is everything
This is all
This is everything
This is everything I've got.
The good things and the bad things are in your hands
My hopes and my dreams are in Your command
And I come before You now as imperfect as I am
And I give, yes I give it all to you.
A couple years ago I was crossing a big intersection while on my lunch hour. The walk light turned on, and I stepped off the curb. As I did so and took a couple steps, I happened to look to my left to double-check oncoming traffic. A car was quickly approaching the intersection, not realizing their light was red. At the last minute the driver brake sharply, skidding toward me. I quickly stepped back and hopped back onto the sidewalk, as the car slid past me (where I had been standing on the road) and into the middle of the intersection. I had escaped serious injury or death. As the driver then backed up to take his place in line, he looked at me apologetically and I smiled. It could have been me doing the same thing. Sometimes it has been, but there hasn't been other traffic or people to create potential damage.
I guess what I'm saying is that things happen and change so quickly in this human existence. Dreams take shape and dreams die. There is birth and death. There are moments of regret and moments of pride. And sometimes the moment that separates the two are quicker than a blink. Sometimes we're stripped down to what the essentials are...to what the Essential Is. "I AM." "This is everything I've got." You know, it's not a bad place to be.
As I was listening to Audio Adrenaline, I looked through their booklet of words. Here's what I found.
All my dreams I had dreamed were dreams of me
All my hopes were desires of what I wanted to be
With ambitions put aside I crawl in Your arms to hide
I have given everything up to You.
This is all
This is everything
This is all
This is everything
This is everything I've got.
The good things and the bad things are in your hands
My hopes and my dreams are in Your command
And I come before You now as imperfect as I am
And I give, yes I give it all to you.
A couple years ago I was crossing a big intersection while on my lunch hour. The walk light turned on, and I stepped off the curb. As I did so and took a couple steps, I happened to look to my left to double-check oncoming traffic. A car was quickly approaching the intersection, not realizing their light was red. At the last minute the driver brake sharply, skidding toward me. I quickly stepped back and hopped back onto the sidewalk, as the car slid past me (where I had been standing on the road) and into the middle of the intersection. I had escaped serious injury or death. As the driver then backed up to take his place in line, he looked at me apologetically and I smiled. It could have been me doing the same thing. Sometimes it has been, but there hasn't been other traffic or people to create potential damage.
I guess what I'm saying is that things happen and change so quickly in this human existence. Dreams take shape and dreams die. There is birth and death. There are moments of regret and moments of pride. And sometimes the moment that separates the two are quicker than a blink. Sometimes we're stripped down to what the essentials are...to what the Essential Is. "I AM." "This is everything I've got." You know, it's not a bad place to be.
// posted by Annette @ 5:03 p.m. 