Music Moments!

Have you ever found yourself driving down the road listening to a song and suddenly fighting back tears?  Or maybe the song took your glum dreary day and turned it around.  Or maybe it just touched your heart with its music or lyrics.  My whole life has been a series of these types of events. Nothing as ever been able to move me like music.  I have read books, attended seminars, watched movies and just about any other inspirational activity you can name and none can top the crazy feeling I get when a piece a music moves my heart.

Today was a music movement day!  It started like any other day.  Get everyone out of bed and moving.  Feed people breakfast.  Make sure that homework is in the correct backpack and that eyeglasses and musical instruments don't get left behind.  Then scurry them out of the house.  That leads to best part- the drive.  During out short 12 minutes in the car my sons can ask some of the greatest questions, tell the most delightful stories and generally remind me each day how special and precious each moment with them is.  For example, last week my parents reached the monumental 47th anniversary.  When Karl asked how old that made PopPop and I said 68...Paul started to cry and said "so that means he will die soon?"  After assuring him that PopPop is not ready to go to heaven Paul rejoiced and said "good because I am just not done with him yet!"  What precious boys...so you can imagine that the actual drop off at school is a little bittersweet each day.  There is a part of me that wishes we could drive for hours and just talk.  But they quickly would tire of mom and the car and so these moments are fleeting each day but so very precious. 

The music moment came today when the following song came on the radio.  I know that many of us have heard the quote and been touched but there was something about the comparison of the first breath and the last that made me well up with tears.  You see I am blessed on both sides.  Precious boys and delightful parents....how true it is that each day...I breathe in the joy of my children and exhale the wisdom of my parents!  For each of them I am eternally grateful!

The Breath You Take, George Strait

He looks up from second base dad’s up in the stands
He saw the hit, the run, the slide there ain’t no bigger fan
In the parking lot after the game he said
“Dad I thought you had a plane to catch”
He smiled and said “Yeah son I did”

Chours
Life’s not the breaths you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain’t what it’s all about
Ya just might miss the point
Try’n to win the race
Life’s not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away

Fast forward fifteen years
And a thousand miles away
Boy’s built a life he’s got a wife
And a baby due today
He hears a voice saying “I made it son
He said “I told you dad you didn’t have to come”
He smiles and says ”Yeah I know you did”

Chours

Just like it took my breath when she was born
Just like it took my breath away when dad took his last that morn

Life’s not the breaths you take
The breathing in and out
That gets you through the day
Ain’t what it’s all about
Ya just might miss the point
If ya don’t slow down the pace
Life’s not the breaths you take
But the moments that take your breath away

Count the moments today that take your breath away!