Summer is here, and, my kids are growing :~)
As I sorted laundry this morning, I was praying for the coming summer and how to be sure I intentionally take time for the special moments with my kids. Somewhere between the baseball pants and dirty socks, I heard the info about this song on the radio, and, I literally stopped sorting and searched for it.
It touched my OCD perfectionist personality to the core ~ I know sometimes I get so caught up in "doing" that I miss the "stopping". In fact, as I typed this, my daughter came down, and, I stopped typing for that extra minute of a hug!!!
As summer rumbles on down, and, we turn the calender quickly, be sure to stop, hold, and, cherish. The time does fly, and, their dreams do take them far away from us.
Perhaps the video speaks so much more than the words, but, I promise, you need a tissue and will stop to think about the time that is flying by with your family.
Tell me when the time we had slipped away
tomorrow turned to yesterday
and I don't know how.
P.S. ~ These lyrics (in part or whole) would be great words in the front of a tribute, graduation, or going away album :~)
The music & lyrics for Michal W. Smith's "How to Say Goodbye" are below ~
And, see the video here
Tell me when the time we had slipped away
tomorrow turned to yesterday
and I don't know how.
Tell me what can stop this river of tears
It's been building up for years
for this moment now.
Here I stand
Arms open wide.
I've held you close
kept you safe
till you could fly.
Tell me where the road ahead is gonna bend,
and how to harness up the wind,
and how to say goodbye.
Tell me why,
why does following your dreams
take you far away from me ~
and I knew that it would.
Tell me how to feel the space you left behind,
and how to laugh instead of cry,
and how to say goodbye
Here I stand
Arms open wide.
I've held you close,
kept you safe
till you could fly.
Tell me where the road ahead is gonna bend,
and how to harness up the wind,
and how to say goodbye.
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