Do we burn or do we glow?

 

"The glow of my growth", Mid-August 2009

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A dear friend played a song for me yesterday.  My response upon hearing the first refrain:  "Shut. up."   The artist's words say it perfectly:

"The day he left her she couldn't speak,

stared out the window the better part of a week.

She lived her life through him for such a long time,

when she looked inside herself she wasn't sure what she'd find.

She had to open the door a little wider, now,

She had to dig a little deeper inside her somehow.

She walked into the fire,

alone and scared stiff,

Now she says his leaving was a strangely wrapped gift...

What is it that we're really made of?  How else will we ever know? 

Till the Hand puts us in the fire-

do we burn or do we glow?"

        -Red Grammer, "Strangely Wrapped Gifts"

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I glow.  Thank God, I most certainly glow.

Comments

[Heidi]

True beyond any doubt Liza.

[abby]

I would like to fave this post. So true.