there appears to be a common thread here lately in some of the songs i've heard recently. examples:
Kenny Chesney "Don't Blink"-Don't blink Just like that you're six years old and you're taking naps and you Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife Don't blinkYou just might miss your babies growing like mine did Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your better half Of fifty years is there in bed And you're praying God takes you instead Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think So don't blinkI was glued to my tv and it looked like he looked at me and said "Best start putting first things first." Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand You can't flip over and start again take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth
Carrie Underwood "So Small"-While you're sitting around thinking about what you can't change And worrying about all the wrong things Time's flying by, moving so fast You better make it count cause you can't get it back
Sometimes that mountain you've been climbing Is just a grain of sand And what you've been out there searching for forever Is in your hands Oh, and when you figure out love is all that matters after all It sure makes everything else seem So small
Steven Curits Chapman "Miracle of the Moment"-'cause we are who and where and what we are for now and this is the only moment we can do anything about so breathe it in and breathe it out, listen to your heartbeat there's a wonder in the here and now it's right there in front of you and i don't want you to miss the miracle of the moment
it's interesting to me to hear this in all the songs. it's pretty plain and clear to me what they are all saying. don't worry, don't fret over stuff. what does worrying do? you can't change anything by worrying about it. it tells us in the Bible not to boast about tomorrow, sorry i can't quote you the verse but i know it's there. i'm so thankful for each and every day i wake up! God is so gracious to us all. Let's not take this day for granted! We are not promised tomorrow, not even this afternoon. Thank you Lord for Your promises, Your mercies, Your Truth! and can i just take this time now to say I HEART SCC! :o) yes, Jess, i totally stole that from you! Ok, Steven Curtis Chapman has released one of his best cds ever! I love every song on the new cd. it's a fun and uplifting 11-track work of art. some of the songs even have a "Jonas-brothers" feel to them...I wonder how much of an influence Steven's son's had on this recording? They are both in the music industry in some way if i remember correctly. one of them plays drums? anyway, they are growing up, and Caleb Chapman actually is "featured" on the song "children of God". i told one of my patients a couple of weeks back how excited i was about Oct. 23rd because the new SCC cd was coming out. his response? "Steven Curtis Chapman? he's still making albums? but he's SO OLD!" HUH???? lol he went on to tell me about the old one he remembered from when he was little, a song called "lord of the dance" HA! how many of ya'll remember back farther (like 3 or 4 cds before that) when SCC had a mullet and resembled Patrick Swayze quite a bit? Thank you God for music!
so, in case you are one of the many who have not heard yet....i am PREGNANT! as indicated by the proof from the top photo. :O) i am currently 9 weeks and 4 days according to the doctors. i had a sonogram on Dec. 26th, 2007, which was also my 33rd year of life! what a special birthday i have had the last two years. in 2006 i was proposed to! we got married on 9-8-07, and then pregnant a couple of months later. then birthday 2007....we got to hear our baby's heartbeat! this was amazing. that little baby in there, only 1.2 cm big at the time, has a heart going at 154 bpm (somewhere around there!)!!! to hear that sound is almost undescribable. i almost felt like i was having an out of body experience it was so UNREAL! then we got 3 little views of our baby. it was all i could do to hold it together and not break down sobbing all day long! by now my body is starting to grow a little! unfortunately, though i lost much poundage from my frame, i still had residual squishy tummy syndrome. now that the baby is making room in there....it now just looks like i'm getting fat! :O) i suppose unless you get lipo--or do 10,000 crunches a day--that squishy tummy is there to stay! we will be finding out what the baby "is" when that time comes. i could wait it out and be surprised but Jon cannot wait to find out! i said we didn't need "pink or blue, just tell everyone to buy green stuff!". well, it probably will have lots of green clothing....it probably doesn't have a chance there. i'm pretty sure it's bedroom will be greenies and browns of some sort! ok, enough baby talk for the moment. i'd like to point out that i did buy a tree (big 3 footer!) and lights for our apartment this year. i'm pretty sure it's a whopping 480 square feet (the apt we live in). anyway, i think it turned out cute! so there ya go, me and Jon, our first "married" Christmas! btw, Jon's birthday is tomorrow, Jan 12. He is going to be 27! we give thanks to our Lord for all His blessings, we cannot begin to imagine them all.
