A Life That's Good

This song was on the most recent episode of Nashville (don't judge me -- someone's got to watch it..) and I really liked the lyrics so I thought I'd share them with ya'll (see how the show rubs off on me. oh dear.) Also, if you get a chance you should look up the video of it, it's by Lennon and Maisy: two very talented young sisters :)

A Life That's Good

Sitting here tonight

By the fire light

It reminds me I already have

More than I should

I don’t need a thing

No one to know my name

At the end of the day

Lord, I pray:

“I have a life that’s good.”

Two arms around me

Ever to ground me

And family that always calls me home

Four wheels to get there

Enough love to share

And a sweet, sweet song

At the end of the day,

Lord, I pray:

“I have a life that’s good.”

The Precipice

There she stood, 

just a short distance from the edge, 

the gentle breeze dancing through her hair

as she breathed deep 

and let the smell of the salty ocean fill her lungs.

She could see the vast horizon stretched out before her, 

the seagulls playing games on the wind.

She thought of all the time it had taken her to get to this point. 

Each step and every stumble that had made up the road that brought her to this place.

A few more steps and she would reach the precipice

and be standing at the edge: 

ahead of her the vastness of the ocean 

and the endlessness of the sky.

Then there will be no more questions or choices;

she has only one thing left to do, 

the outcome the only uncertainty.  

She imaged that when she leaped 

she would submerge gracefully into the cool waters below;

feeling the freshness of it as the current gently guided her. 

But there was a chance, 

however small, 

that she would hit upon the rocks. 

That it would all have been for naught.

There she stood, 

those few small steps from the cliff edge, 

and she knew that the outcome no longer mattered. 

Every step and misstep will have been worth it

if only for those few brief moments after stepping off the edge

The moments she’ll feel like she is flying.