Good and bad....Music has its way!!
I love to hear my children play the piano! I love to hear them sing! It has a wonderful magical quality, that makes me feel like I have accomplished something great. Not because I can play the piano well, or know the song they are singing; but because I feel the music from them touching something deep inside of me. I am so grateful for their talents, and the ones they are still working on! and am grateful they want to share those with me and others.
There is a song that a couple of my children sang in choirs this year that touches my heart strings so completely it is hard to put into words. The message and melody portray so many of my tender inner feelings, dreams, ideas, memories, and hopes. Everytime I hear it I end up bawling like a child again. My son brought home the words and tune for me from school....it won't do it justice...but the words are:
"Read me a memry, tell me a tale.
Speak of wondrous adventures, together we'll sail off to forests enchanted and lands far away.
Fairies and kings and magical rings. My heart has wings,
when I sit at your knee and you read to me.
Years turn like pages, soon I'll be grown.
Maybe someday I'll read to a child of my own.
Though I may not remember the stories we shared
I always knew the time spent with you that you loved me too
for I sat at your knee and you read to me.
Childhood like summer days, dews on the grass.
Soon will be yesterdays. Don't let it pass...
till you read me a memry, tell me a tale
speak of wondrous adventures.
Together we'll sail off to forests enchanted
and lands far away.
Fairies and kings, and magical rings..
My heart has wings.....
When I sit at your knee and you read to me."
Some enchantment comes from this song. Reminding me of my own childhood, and the love of goodly parents who showered (and still shower) me with great love. It reminds me of my desires to be a mother and the love and adventures I dreamed of sharing with children of my own. And it also reminds me of the younger years of my beautiful children...and all the wondering if enough was done, said, or shared to help them create the love and emotion that this song evokes from me.
For now I don't know (not sure I want to know), but know that everyday makes a difference in the lives of my children. Oh how I love them and pray that I have done enough for them to know the love that I have felt. How grateful I am to a loving Heavenly Father to have blessed my life so completely with such an amazing opportunity to love so many of His children. To any of my children that may ever read this.....every word I ever read to you, every word ever sung......was done so in an effort for you to learn to love and to know of my great love for you. Thank you for loving me so completely in return!
Love, Mom
