I Could Lift You Up, I Could Show You What You Wanna See And Take You Where You Wanna Be

Why yes, I did steal my title from the Capital Cities song "Safe and Sound," thank you for noticing.

If you know me, then you know I like to make things spiritual. Because well, when you choose to be fearful and ridiculous all you do it give power to the dark side and just pave a few more miles of that road to hell. Just saying. I mean, it's far more positive to challenge someone's perspective on a song or a book or a random incident in life than it is to tell them flat out that they are wrong and stand in judgement of their (sometimes poor taste) in music, shows or life choices. 

Safe and Sound is one of those songs that you can not help but like. It first came on my radar at the beginning of this hard season. It is on my Uplifter playlist on YouTube. My son loves it and loves to dance to it. Lyrically, it's one of those songs that when you are between a rock and a hard place that helps you catch that breath and that ray of light that gives you hope. Or maybe that is just me. 

I do want to inspire people. I don't consciously want people to look at me and say that because of me they didn't give up but I have had the pleasure of being told that before. See, where I have just been living life, I seem to have been doing it in such a way that it blips on other people's radar and they want to acknowledge. When I was a young single mom, working and going to school and juggling all the balls, it was just life to me. I never thought of it as a mission or a ministry or anything more than getting by but other people saw a light there that they needed. It made me who I am today and that perspective has enabled to pour into others.

Good ol' American boot-strapping and misguided whatever you want to call it has us all being such rugged individuals that we do things to the exclusion of the inclusiveness that we desire. I may never be the Queen of the Universe as I once planned to be but two fantastic kids call me "Mom." All the money and toys in the world can never replace relationship. The biggest treasure in the world is relationship...with God, with family, with friends, with people. There are so many people in my life that I pray could be released from the bondage of the self-centeredness that has them careening off the rails like a crazy train. 

I could lift you up. You could lift me up. We can pour into each other and get through this life and onto the next. 

I just gotta remember...it's not all about me.