music....

I love music! It speaks directly to my heart! I think i will start posting some lyrics to some of my favorite songs. I think the ability to write thoughts, feelings, beliefs, fears, emotions, experiences, wishes, lessons and loves and put them to music is a great gift! I am so thankful for the gift of music .

I have a few friends going through very difficult times and i know several children who have disablilities, some severe and some not so much. It brings this song to my heart.

This song was given to me by my favorite Seminary teacher of all time, Brother Shelton. He saved my life, and I'm forever greatful........

The Test

Tell me friend, Why are you blind?
Why doesn't He, who worked the miracles, send light into your eyes?
Tell me friend, If you understand.
Why doesn't He with power to raise the dead just make you whole again?

It would be so easy for Him,
I watch you and in sorrow question why,
Then you, my friend, in perfect faith reply,

Didn't He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say we could live with Him forever more, well and whole,
if we but patiently endure?
After the trial, we will be blessed,
but this life is the test.

Tell me friend, I see your pain.
Why when you pray in faith for healing, does the crippleing thorn remain?
Help me see, if you understand.
Why doesn't He who healed the lame man, come with healing in his wings?

It would be so easy for Him.
I watch you and in sorrow question why?
Then you my friend in perfect faith reply,

Didn't He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say we could live with Him forever more, well and whole,
if we but patiently endure?
After the trial we will be blessed,
but this life is the test.

Tell me now, why must you die?
Why must your loved ones stand with empty hearts
and ask the question why?
Help me know, so I can go on.
How when your love and faith sustained me,
can the precious gift be gone?

From the depths of sorrow I cry
though pains of grief within my soul arise.
The whisperings of the Spirit still my cries.

Didnt He say He sent us to be tested?
Didn't He say the way would not be sure?
But didn't He say we could live with him forever more, well and whole,
if we but patiently endure?
Ater the trial, we will be blessed,
but this life is the test.

Janice Kapp Perry

how much.....

......of ourselves do we give up to make those around us happy? If we give up too much, we loose our identity. We becomes someone that fills others needs. We don't even recognize our own needs, or feel that they are not important.

We forget what makes us happy, or even the feeling of happy. Happiness becomes something we see in others, or try to bring to others.

Maybe its the fear of finding out who we really are, wont be-or meet the expectations of others or ourselves. That somehow it wont be good enough or right.

And maybe, its not even knowing where to start..................yeah, maybe.