Lauren Alania's song "The Middle" has really inspired me. Just the first few lyrics I wrote up there to share with you is just a bit of the song that is inspiring. It is so true, take each day and make it last.
Why do we allow our lives to get in lulls? Why do we just go through the motions?
Can we actually follow the advice in the song, can we really take each day and make it last?
I've been inspired because I'm guilty of lulls and going through the motions. I want to live the life that she sings about in the song, the kind of person who makes people smile when they look back they say things about you like, "The simple things were golden you found beauty in every moment"
"The day your born is just a start, your last breath is a question mark the story of your life is in the in between."
Just look at the people you love that you go to be there waiting in the waiting room (or giving labor to them) and think about how happy you were when they were born and you just thought this baby is going to have such a great life I'm going to love them and care for them and teach them.
And think about the people who have impacted your life who God decided He needed more. The people that leave us, either suddenly or we were able to prepare the best we can. We are sad because those people left our lives and we can't hug them or see them, but those people who impacted your life inspired you, they showed you things in life that you want to be, I just look back at the blessings I've had with the great grandparents and grandparents I've had the honor of knowing seeing the way they lived their lives and the life that they built and the families they built were so inspiring. The people that die "too soon" that we love, they tend to be the ones full of life too, the ones who make the most of life and are always so happy and loving, when you look back on their life you smile because they made the most of it.
Really the beginning and the end does mean so little, yes we as a culture find it important to base things on dates and I love birthdays to celebrate and I always think about my loved ones when the anniversaries of their deaths come up, but really the in between is what matters. Birthdays are just numbers in reality, the numbers that don't define us, what define us are the people we are and what we do with our lives. The way we live out the middle.
Take some time (more than you have so graciously have by reading this) and really listen to this song, I bought it on iTunes and I listen to it at least 10 times a day. Its so inspiring.
"The beginning and then end mean so little, what matters most is what's in the middle"
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