I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz

I was getting ready today listening to wonderful Pandora, and this song came on. And there is so much I could go on to say about this song.  But I'm just going to leave it at, oh my heck it's SOO true.

When I look into your eyes, it's like watching the night sky or a beautiful sunrise.

There's so much they hold. 

And just like them old stars, I see that you've come so far to be right where you are.

How old is your soul?

I won't give up on us, even if the skies get rough.

I'm giving you all my love.

I'm still looking up.

And when your needing your space to do some navigating,

I'll be here patiently waiting to see what you find...

Cause even the stars, they burn.

Some even fall to the earth.

We've got a lot to learn, God knows we're worth it.

No, I won't give up.

I don't wanna be someone who walks away so easily.

I'm here to stay and make the difference that I can make.

Our differences, they do a lot to teach us how to use the tools and gifts we've got, yeah we've got a lot at stake.

And in the end, you're still my friend, at least we did intent for us to work.

We didn't break, we didn't burn, we had to learn how to bend without the world caving in.

I had to learn what I've got, and what I'm not.

And who I am.

I won't give up on us even if the skies get rough.

I'm giving you all my love.

I'm still looking up.

I won't give up on us, no I'm not giving up.

God knows I'm tough enough, I am tough, I am loved.

We've got a lot to learn, we're alive, we are loved.

God knows we're worth it, and we're worth it.

I won't give up on us, even if the skies get rough.

I'm giving you all my love.

I'm still looking up.

(If you are my friend, I require you to watch this music video and listen to Jason Mraz sing this as wonderfully as he does. )

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Where Can I Turn For Peace?

Where can I turn for peace?

Where is my solace when other sources cease to make me whole?

When with a wounded heart, anger, or malice, I draw myself apart, searching my soul?

Where when my aching grows, where, when I languish, where, in my need to know, where can I run?

Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish?

Who, who can understand?

He, only One.

He answers privately, reaches my reaching in my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend.

Gentle the peace he finds for my beseeching.

Constant he is and kind, love without end.

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Heavenly Father,

Are you really there? And do you hear and answer every childs prayer? Some say that heaven is far away... But I feel it closer everytime I pray.

Heavenly Father,

I remember now. Something that Jesus told disciples long ago. "Suffer the children to come to me." Father, in prayer I'm coming now to thee.

Pray, he is there. Speak, he is listening. You are his child. His love now surrounds you. He hears your prayers. He loves the children. Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of heaven.

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Love Is a Battlefield

I think the title is enough explanation in itself.  Dating and falling in love is a such a scary process.  You can meet someone and be entirely entraced by them, and then the next thing you know things are completely different.  But I guess that's all in the name of love. I guess though, if we didin't have such lows when it comes to love, that you also wouldn't feel as much of a high as you do when you find it.  Love isn't meant to last forever with everyone, however I don't think that doesn't mean you didn't love them at some point. There is that person that you meet where that love with them is going to last forever, survive through every trial it is put through, and only grow stronger because of it.  But there are other loves that come in life just to teach you.  Teach you something about yourself, teach you something about life, maybe just to teach you something about love itself.  I personally have had a few different occasions in my where I have loved and gotten hurt, or hurt another. And of course it is hard, it can make you bitter and make you tell yourself that you are taking yourself out of the game of love completely.  However, when I think back on everything I have been through, I don't regret nor would I take back one single second of everything that has happened in my life.  Pain and happiness of love has made me who I am today.  Love is a learning experience, that you can only learn as you go.  Me personally, I'm still in love with the boy that I liked in 3rd grade.  Maybe he is the one for me whose love will stand the test of time.  But for now, it's not something I am going to worry about.  Love comes around in it's own time.  Whether that is tomorrow, or two years spent apart.. only God will know.  :)

Favorite song about Love at this moment in time..

Read the words and listen to their meaning.

I've capitalized my favorite parts of this song. I love it.

"Live Like We're Dying" by Kris Allen

Sometimes we fall down, can't get back up

We're hiding behind skin that's too tough

HOW COME WE DON'T SAY I LOVE YOU ENOUGH?

TILL IT'S TOO LATE, IT'S NOT TOO LATE

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come

And we could make a feast from these crumbs

And we're all staring down the barrel of a gun

So if your life flashed before you, what would you wish you would've done?

Yeah, we gotta start looking at the hand of the time we've been given

If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinking

If every second counts on a clock that's ticking

Gotta live like we're dying

We've only got 86-400 seconds in a day to

Turn it all around or throw it all away

We gotta tell them that we love them while we got the chance to say

Gotta live like we're dying

AND IF YOUR PLANE FELL OUT OF THE SKIES

WHO WOULD YOU CALL WITH YOUR LAST GOODBYES?

SHOULD BE SO CAREFUL WHO WE LEFT OUT OF OUR LIVES

AND WHEN WE LONG FOR ABSOLUTION, THERE WILL BE NO ONE ON THE LINE

You never know a good thing till it's gone

You never see a crash till it's head on

Why do we think we're right when we're dead wrong?

You never know a good thing till it's gone

Yeah, gotta start looking at the hands of the time we've been given

If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinking

If every second counts on a clock that's ticking

Gotta live like we're dying

We've only got 86-400 seconds in a day to

Turn it all around or throw it all away

We gotta tell them that we love them while we got the chance to say

Gotta live like we're dying.

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You're Still The One - Shania Twain

Looks like we've made it

Look how far we've come my baby

We might have took the long way

We knew we'd make it someday

They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

But just look at us holding on

We're still together

Still holding strong

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're still the one I want for life

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss goodnight

Aint nothing better

We beat the odds together

I'm glad we didn't listen

Look at what we would be missing

They said, "I bet they'll never make it"

But just look at us holding on

We're still together

Still holding strong

You're still the one I run to

The one that I belong to

You're still the one I want for life

You're still the one that I love

The only one I dream of

You're still the one I kiss goodnight

I'm so glad we made it

Look how far we've come my baby..

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