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“All human life has its seasons, and no one’s personal chaos can be permanent: winter, after all does not last forever does it? There is summer, too, and spring, and though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, that summer, but they do, and always."
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I Hope You Dance

(Selected by a single parent mom who was aged 9 when her mother was murdered as a message she believes her mother has for her.)


I hope you never lose your sense of wonder
You get our 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 sill feel small when you stand beside the ocean
Whenever one door closed 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…I hope you dance


I hope you never fear the mountains in the distance
Never settle for the path of least resistance
Livin’ might mean takin’ chances but the’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 ge the chance to sit it out or dance
I hope you dance…I hope you dance


Time is a wheel in constanct motion always rolling us along
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder
Where those yers have gone
I hope you dance…I hope you dance…
I hope you dance

 
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