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Sometimes there are obstacles in the road That you leave you feeling low And you don't know how to move forward And sometimes there are turns you wanna take But the way gets hard to trace Now you're wondering how did you get here When we come across obstacles, it's like that is all we see.  We forget that there are other things in our line of vision if we focus hard enough.  We lose sight of our goals and what we had originally set out to achieve because we listen to people telling us we cannot do it.  We allow our ears to be filled by negative thoughts and just because nobody else has done it the way that you are planning to - it doesn't mean that you can't.  It just means that they are not fully aware of the obstacles that in front of you either.  Instead, they try to limit your options because they could never see the same options for themselves.  If you continue to believe the worst in yourself, even after you have continued to be uplifted and pra...

I've been twisting and turning In a space that's too small I've been drawing the line and watching it fall You've been closing me in, closing the space in my heart Watching us fading and watching it fall apart You have to wonder how you got yourself into that small crevice of a space in the first place!  We never really take notice of our surroundings until it drastically changes around us and we become restricted in our movements.  Why weren't you paying attention?  Were you hoping that things would change, that conversations would eventually lead to somewhere that made sense to you?  Has your patience been rewarded?  Where do we learn to draw the line when we are constantly disappointed?  What if someone else is closing you in?  Can you get around them?  Avoid being pushed into a corner?  Will they eventually know when to start giving you space?  The connection may start to show some wear and tear and you may soon start to see th...

This is for someone right now. . .  It's not over, it's not finished It's not ending, it's only the beginning When God is in it, all things are new All things are new I know it's darkest just before dawn This might be the hardest season you experience I know it hurts, it won't be too long You're closer than you think you are You're closer than you've been before Look to the sky, help is on the way It's not over, it's not finished It's not ending, it's only the beginning When God is in it all things are new All things are new Have you come to situations where you have felt like you had no way to go but to give up?  When we look at situations with our human eyes, we don't have the eyes to see when there are other alternatives or pathways that we have yet to be explored.  We forget that we don't have the ability to see beyond what is right in front of us, particularly when we are in constant states of panic or w...

He was beautiful, beautiful to my eyes From the moment I saw him sun filled the skies My first experience with this song was with the original Cavatina but in piano score.  I had gone through a phase during high school where I was sight reading piano music with such a voracious appetite that the public library staff recognised me from all of the trips carting books back and forth.  I would take the books home and play them to death.  The pieces that I ended up liking I would photocopy and put them into folders so that I could play them over and over like reading my favourite books.  Cavatina is one of those pieces that I can play from memory because of this process.  I was familiar with Cleo Laine's work as a child from having seen her featured in a couple of commercials and hearing her voice.  She wrote the lyrics to this song and I have included her video below with John Williams.  When I heard these lyrics, it added another dimension that I appre...

I need the right one with a bright imagination Someone to talk to, somebody patient I wanna cold piece I wanna love sensation I want the mind first I'll make the body wait for it (wait for it) You could be the right one With a little dedication Gotta make me follow through Gotta make me chase it Oh I wanna stone groove I wanna love sensation Someone to hold to Someone to play with Trying to make yourself attractive to whoever you want to attract can be easy or hard.  There are a lot of factors that come into play, but at its most basic foundation, quite simply it has a lot to do with the fact that they are either into you or not.  Do you consider yourself a cold piece?  It might be hard to consider yourself a cold piece if you are not confident in yourself about who you are.  I have talked about this a lot with girlfriends and other different types of people in other contexts - where we draw the line between confident and cocky.  Being a cold piec...

How come every guy that I'm loving Is soon to disappoint, always frightened They will never hear when I need him But you come here right when I'm bleeding I guess it comes back to what you invest in with these guys that you keep falling for, these guys who can't give you what you are crying out for.  Are there things that you have set into motion that they aren't prepared to give?  Granted you can't have an answer for everything, a reason for why you do the things you do, sometimes you just do things because it feels right more than whether it is right.  You might like someone because of the way they make you feel but nothing really adds up to anything meaningful or long-term for the long haul.  Instead, you just enjoy the moments for what they are and not worry too much about the future, not worry too much about what is to come because we never really know what tomorrow brings.  Maybe you do this to protect yourself, so that when you get disappointed,...

I keep fighting voices in my mind that say I'm not enough Every single lie that tells me I will never measure up Am I more than just the sum of every high and every low? Remind me once again who I am because I need to know (ooh oh) Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.  You might be experiencing huge doubts of self-doubt, that you will not be able to complete tasks set before you that would normally have been easy to finish.  Those negative voices in your head that stop you from living your true potential, those negative voices in your head that have taken what others might have said to you growing up, may now have morphed into your own voice.  Which version of yourself - through all of the highs, through all of the lows do you want to be?  We examine the character of who we are in every victory and triumph, in every loss and failure.  We may even question who we are because we have forgotten and lost parts of ourselves along the way.  We may even fi...