This One's For You

Thank you for being wise.
Thank you for bringing me to musicals and helping me fall in love with them.
Thank you for making me smile all the time.
Thank you for playing Bill Cosby, Three Dog Night and Oklahoma! on long car rides over and over and over again.
Thank you for playing music embarassingly loud with the windows rolled down.
Thank you for always knowing someone (even if they don't know you) no matter where we are.
Thank you for your last minute exciting plans.
Thank you for letting me sit on your lap all those years.
Thank you for keeping everything.
Thank you for trying to make everyone laugh all the time.
Thank you for going out of your way to say hello to someone.
Thank you for remembering (what seems like) everything and sharing it with me.
Thank you for bringing me programs late at night after a show is finished.
Thank you for introducing me to Bill Murray and his fantastic movies (like Groundhog Day, What About Bob?, and Meatballs).
Thank you for moving the music around all corners of the car when a good song is on.
Thank you for giving me a sense of humour.
Thank you for ending every text with lyd.
Thank you for everything I couldn't even put in this list because it would be too long.
Thank you for being the best dad I could ever ask for.

That's right. This one's for you dad! Tonight we walked through the people filled lobby and parking lot singing Those Canaan Days without a care and continued in the car for the first 10 minutes of our car ride. But the best part, the absolute best part was when we were listening to Redefined and singing along to Mighty To Save together. What an incredibly beautiful moment. I think I will remember this one forever.

I couldn't ask anything more of you because you've already given me so much. But I know you would still go to the moon and back if I needed you too. Thank you for being you and sharing it all with me.

--lyb

Song of the Moment: Mighty To Save by Redefined (Redefined is a band my brother was in for a year...any other rendition would do, but this was a family affair after all)

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12

This Perfect Moment

I was waiting for my show to start on CMT tonight when I caught the end of Paul Brandt's Build It Forward. At the end Paul said: Some people search for their perfect moment forever, but what they don't realize is that they are living their perfect moment. (or something to that extent...don't want to misquote :P ) And as I usually say in my blogs, it hit me right in the face!

It seems as if I'm always looking and searching and dreaming that perfect moment. I can't help it. My combination of hopeless romantic and dreamer get the best of me! But when I sat there and thought about it, what makes this moment, today, not my perfect moment?

Yes, I know, life is ridiculously busy right now. I have work, school, papers galore which pretty much means no social life for the time being. I'm tired, I'm stressed and I'm not keeping myself as healthy as I should. But I've got some pretty amazing friends keeping me going, I've got my love for the work I do, I've got an awesome placement, I've got Christmas break just waiting in the distance and I've got an awesome God pulling me through it all. Somehow.

So why am I complaining? Why am I waiting for such an amazingly perfect moment that I am overshadowing all the great ones right now? Sure, someday I may or may not have that storybook and/or movie moment. But right now, I am content with what I've got. I am content with all the things God has blessed me with.

Song of the Moment: Just A Kiss by Lady Antebellum...Can't get enough of this song (or the video for it!!) Hey, I can still dream right?

Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young but set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity.
1 Timothy 4:12