another song

One of the things I love about Christain music, is it paints a picture of love, life and loss, with God as the answer. There are so many songs that I hear and when I listen to the lyrics, I hear something that I need to hear. Or maybe I think someone else needs to hear. There is a band, SuperChick, that Marcy and I have seen several times and really like. They have a song called "We Live," that I heard again the other day and the lyrics really hit me. They talk about how our life is not our own, but we need to live our lives as if today is our last day, because it just might be. The line "So how does the story end? Well, this is your story And it all depends. So don't let it become true, Get out and do what we were meant to do," really gets me. Don't sit back and feel sorry for yourself for the situation you are in, if you aren't happy, change it. Don't just sit there doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results. I think I heard that is the definition of insanity. This is another one, if you have the ability to listen to the lyrics and read them, much better.

There's a cross
On the side of the road
Where a mother lost her son
How could she know that
The morning he left
Would be their last time,
She'd trade with for a little more time
(So she could say she loved him one last time)
And hold him tight?

But with life,
We never know
When we're coming up to
The end of the road.

So what do we do then,
With tragedy around the bend?

[Chorus x2]
We live,
We love,
We forgive,
And never give up,
'Cause the days we are given
Are gifts from above,
And today we remember to live and to love,

There's a man
Who waits for the tests to
See if the cancer had spread yet
And now he asks,
'So why did I
Wait to live
'Til it was time to die?
If I could have the time back, how I'd live,
Life is such a gift'

So how does the story end?
Well, this is your story
And it all depends.
So don't let it become true,
Get out and do what we were meant to do

[Chorus x2]
We live,
We love,
We forgive,
And never give up,
'Cause the days we are given
Are gifts from above,
And today we remember
To live and to love.

Waking up to another dark morning,
People are mourning,
The weather in life outside is stormin'.

But what would it take
For the clouds to break,
For us to realize each day
Is a gift somehow,
Someway?

And get our heads up out of this darkness
And spark this
New mindset
And start on with life,
'Cause it ain't gone yet
And tragedy's a reminder
To take off the blinders and wake up,
(To live the life)
We're supposed to take up,
(Moving forward)
With all our heads up,
'Cause life is worth living!

[Chorus x2]
We live,
We love,
We forgive,
And never give up,
'Cause the days we are given
Are gifts from above,
And today we remember
To live and to love

We live,
We love,
[We live]
We forgive,
And never give up,
[We love]
'Cause the days we are given
Are gifts from above,
And today we remember
To live and to love

We live,
We love,
[We live]
We forgive,
And never give up,
[We love]
'Cause the days we are given
Are gifts from above,
And today we remember
To live and to love.
[Today we live and love]

Words to live by. Amen!