I hope you dance
I was reading this book and i just wanted to type it out beacuse it touched me and i thought it might touch other people...Whenever i read this book i always feel better, almost everythign in it is true. When i seem to forget certain things i pick it up and read it again.Its kind of long so i understnad if you dont read it.
< "I hope you dance
by, Mark D Sanders & Tia Sillers" >
This is from me to you. This is the truth.
How many times have; my wishes, and my dreams, and my prayers, for you hidden beanth my breath?
How many times have I looked at you, heart in my throat, hands in my pockets, a smile on my face, just wanting to say...
I HOPE YOU NEVER LOSEYOUR SENSE OF WONDER
What is hope? To want? To desire? To expect that what's envisioned may indeed happen? YES to all of the above. IS hope that gut feeling that it's worth holding out and hanging on for just a little longer. ABSOLUTELY. Is hope the core of the human condition? CERTAINLY. Can you have hope without faith and humility and wonder? THATS TOUGH. Just the thought that there's something bigger, something truer, something totally surprising out there waiting for us is...priceless.
What would you be without hope growing deep in your bones, thriving in every inch of you? NOTHING.
What Does IT Take To Hope?
EVERYTHING.
Hope takes never ceasing to be amazed...
Wearing your soul on your sleeve...
Holding your breath, waiting to hear "i love you, too..."
Believeing that tomorrow could be better than today...thats you'll get a second chance...that you'll make a difference...that you matter.
You Get Your Fill To Eat But Always Keep that Hunger
Hunger is wanting: to see more, to feel more, to touch more, to crave, desire, search out, find, hold more. And sometimes hunger hurts more. But go on, go west, young man, young woman. Plow the land, plant the seeds, grow the food for the whole wide world.
MAY YOU NEVER TAKE ONE SINGLE BREATH FOR GRANTED
SO BREATHE OUT AND BREATHE IN
(and soak it all up)
God Forbid Love Ever Leave You Empty-Handed
But if it does, may it leave you patient and stronger, willing and wiser, tender and tougher.
I HOPE YOU STILL FEEL
small
WHEN YOU STAND BESIDE THE OCEAN
IF you're ever lying on a beach with 80 billion grains of sand beneath you, 700 thousand ocean waves beafore you. 60 million stars above you, and you're still not impressed, I want you to think about this: The Light you see reflectiong from the stars is ove5r one million years old.
WOW.
But then just before you start to feel like a mere blip in the gigantic scheme of things, please rememer this: Yes, you are small. but you are also irreplaceable and invaluable and miraculous. Thoe stars dont have anythingn you.
WHENEVER ONE DOOR CLOSES I HOPE ONE MORE OPENS
Holes in walls that offer us a way out or a way in. Just putting your hand on the knob and seeing if it turns can make you weak in teh knees. What if its locked? What if its unlocked? What if no one answers? What if someone does? What if the hinges creak open and the heavy wood swings open and you're suddenyl standing in the threshold of a brand new tomorrow? What if your horizon is nothing but blue clear skies? What if its a raging storm? What if? What if?
PROMISE ME THAT YOU'LL GIVE FAITH A FIGHTING CHANCE
A PROMISE IS ALL ABOUT FAITH.
A PROMISE IS ONLY AS STRONG
as your own faith in your own self, in your own god. So when you swear, in the light of your strengths and in spite of your weaknesses, to struggle and follow though, you....are doing a beautiful thing.
AND WHEN YOU GET THE CHOICE TO SIT IT OUT OR DANCE
I HOPE YOU DANCE
Let the music move you, let themoment take your hand, let it lead you out into the middle of the dance floor and embrace you. Dive off the high board, ride with the top down, thrive like a wildflower, and sing (who cares what you sound like) with a voice all your own.
I HOPE YOU NEVER FEAR THOSE MOUNTAINS IN THE DISTANCE
Life Chapter 23
Mountains and Oceans
Seems like there's always another of one or the other...
It's crossing your fingers hen the map doesnt make sense, when the compass doesnt know truly north from truly lost; ans its up to you- you and your gut and your mettle, and your level of resilience, and your wealth of wisdom- to persevere. To get to the other side.
NEVER SETTLE FOR THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE (thats too easy. What follows is too interesting.)
LIVING MIGHT MEAN TAKING CHANCES, BUT THEYRE WOTH TAKING
Ask Eve. Evolve. Take a chance, take a ticket, take a fast train to the coast. No guts, no glory.
Chance (n.): A coin with two sides that one tosses into the air as many times as one wants. The odds remain the same.
Its risky breathing, let alone needing, trusting, reaching out. Life is the leap of faith, the bold declaration of
HOPE.
LOVING MIGHT BE A MISTAKE BUT ITS WORTH MAKING
Love, love, love. You have to love, and if you dont get love right, you have to move on and forgive. And then you have to remember that you've forgiven, or else you cant move on. And if you dont move on, you'll surely end up... Bitter.*
*DONT LET SOME HELL-BENT HEART LEAVE YOU BITTER(and dont say i didnt warn you)
There are too many people too angry at a world that isnt in the least bit angry at them.
WHEN YOU COME CLOSE TO SELLING OUT, RECONSIDER.
YOU
(a haiku)
One worth so much
To me, to life as such.
A bowl of cherries.
GIVE THE HEAVENS ABOVE MORE THAN JUST A PASSING GLANCE
Heaven (n.): (1) a place somehow high above the clouds, yet deep inside your soul; (2) a place of complete peace, of total and utter happiness; (3) a place greater than the sum of everything you will ever be or could imagine to be ; (4) a place we all want to get to, but just not yet...
No.Not Yet.
AND WHEN YOU GET THE CHOICE TO SIT IT OUT OR DANCE...
I HOPE YOU DANCE
I HOPE YOU DANCE BECAUSE
Time. Time is a wheel. Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along. Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder...
WHERE
THEIR
YEARS
HAVE
GONE
Ah, Youth
Ah, youth...new skin, wide smiles, clear eyes...the future so bright. IF only we could bottle it, sip it now and again, and stay forever twenty-one, forever ten, forever five.
I liked being five.
But id also like to think that time and age are like cousins- theyre relative. Who said you have to go by actual miles? IF you didnt know how old you were, how old would you be? (me, im sticking with five)
Ill even argue that you can bottle youth. What you store it in is all up to you. (i suggest your heart.) If you can figure out a way to keep the energy and gumption and fire alive, you'll always stay young.
And wheres theres youth, theres hope...
where theres hope, theres wonder...
where theres wonder, theres faith...
where theres faith, theres chance...
where theres chance, theres love...
where theres love, theres music...
and dancing.
SO IN MY HEART OF HEARTS
I HOPE YOU DANCE
I REALLY HOPE YOU DANCE
WAIT...
Promise me one more thing:
If tomorrow you wake up feeling
unoriginal
or
frail-hearted
or
faithless
or
tired of this world
please
pick up this book and start back at page
ONE.
(or just call me. 14155739737)
No. Its not the end. Its the beginning.
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"I Hope You Dance" (Lee Ann Womack)
I hope you never lose your sense of wonder.
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger.
May you never take one single breath for granted.
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens.
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
I hope you dance-hope you dance (CHORUS)
I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance.
Never settle for the path of least resistance.
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'.
Lovin'might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter.
When you come close to sellin'out, reconsider.
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
(CHORUS) Including harmony with the following backing vocals...
(Time is a wheel in constant motion always [CHORUS] rolling us along.)
(CHORUS) Including harmony with the following backing vocals)
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, [CHORUS] where those
years
have gone.)
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens.
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.
(slight pause) Dance
I hope you dance.
I hope you armony with backing vocals.](Time is a wheel in constant motion
always rolling us along.) dance.
I hope you dance.
(Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those years
have gone.)
I hope you dance-hope you dance.