Me, Tim, and The Light That Shines

I am sitting here hanging with Tim McGraw on my internet radio and thinking how this music is very much like my many thoughts on writing and emotion combined, it is love and madness mixed. Where it comes from only a writer can wrap around that source...but the benefit is in the way the result simply takes shape through each person it touches. Writing put to music is a source of healing, motivation, and pure emotion. There is no making sense of that joyful noise, because it effortlessly finds way to move you beyond comprehension, regardless of the genre.

I love that about music. I love that about life. That you can find so many ways, even trip over them unexpectedly, to feel drawn into this world you know nothing about, yet somehow it just fits perfectly into your mind, heart, or soul experience. It just simply moves you. It can be the words, the tune, the passion; it can be its strength or detriment, it can simply be about the moment in time you are experiencing that grabs a hold of you and doesn't let you go until the last tune trails off into the next space in time.

How could I not know all my life that writing and music are where my heart is at home? It is where my life takes shape and where my career belongs. How can something affect me so profoundly at any given moment, and me not think: Hmm, wonder how I can make a living in that realm? Silly, crazy, wonderful revelations: In simple moments like these, when songs move me move toward my passion and away from the mundane reality of making a living. I will live my dream of being so involved in my work that it is not work: It is my life.

Imagine! To wake up every single day engaged and connected to a source of inspiration on all levels. Then, to translate that inspiration into something that moves someone else. I see myself being that person, the one who provides that inspiration for others, simply by living my own revelations. If you are not doing that in your life, figure out why not! Find your truth and live it fully so you can give back to the world what it desperately needs...a piece of you that moves someone else to positive change. Be that change and watch how others will light up around you! I look forward to all the ways I will watch my own career unfold before me, and the many, many people I will reach to inspire making their own changes.

I used to think about how I would hide my light so others would could be comfortable around me, but then I thought: why, why short change my experience to appease someone else? In letting my soul shine, as bright as it can possibly shine, I am allowing all those around me to do the same. MAN! Open up! Allow yourself to be everything you ever thought you could, and even better--all of those things of which you never dreamed yourself worthy.

Well Tim has done it again. He has brought me to a revelation by doing something he just loves to do, something he simply is. He does not even know me, and yet he, through his music and life choice, has moved me to expose my own truth. Live my passion and let others in on that joy. Mountains will move, silence will lift, and emotions will stir. How grateful I am to be a part of this life and all the freedom we have to be whatever, whomever, we want to be. I am ready; let’s go get it done...