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Monday, February 1, 2010

Life's Little [Beautiful] Blessings

Alright, I guess I have not been as diligent with this as I had hoped. For now I will shoot for a weekly update, and once I am consistent with that I will attempt a daily/semi-daily update. Lets see how this goes.
Today I was listening to my country station on Pandora. Sugarland is one of my favorite country groups and their song "It Happens" came on, which is one of my favorite songs to blast in the car! I thought I would share it here because I think it has such a wonderful message.

It Happens. Sugarland.

Missed my alarm clock ringing
Woke up, telephone screaming
Boss man singing his same old song
Rolled in late about an hour
no cup of coffee, no shower
Walk of shame with two different shoes on

Now it's poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah, blah story
There's no good explanation for it at all

Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over-think it
Let go, laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens

My trusty-rusty had a flat
I borrowed my neighbors Cadillac
"I'll be right back," going down to Wally World
That yellowed light turned red too quickly
Knew that truck the moment it hit me
Out stepped my ex and his new girl
("Sorry 'bout your neck baby")

But it's poor me, why me, oh me, boring
The same old worn out, blah, blah story
There's no good explanation for it at all

Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over-think it
Let go, laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens

Ain't no rhyme or reason
No complicated meaning
Ain't no need to over-think it
Let go, laughing
Life don't go quite like you planned it
We try so hard to understand it
The irrefutable, indisputable fact is
It happens

Yeah, the irrefutable, indisputable,
absoluteable, totally beautiful fact is
pshhhhh, it happens

I hope you can take something from this song. I am a firm believer that it is the little things in life that mean EVERYTHING, and I try every day to focus on those little blessings and let everything else just pass me by. Its not worth it to spend so much energy on something that 5 or 10 years down the road will not matter. My life is worth more than that. The people in my life deserve better than that from me. They deserve my unconditional love, not love based on actions, but love that mirrors Christ's beautiful Love.

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