Grown-Up Christmas List

"Grown-Up Christmas List" became one of my favorite songs the very first time I heard Amy Grant sing it.

The version here is by Kelly Clarkson and includes lyrics, which are also pasted below:




Grown-Up Christmas List

Do you remember me?
I sat upon your knee;
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies.

Well, I'm all grown-up now,
And still need help somehow
I'm not a child,
But my heart still can dream.

So here's my lifelong wish,
My grown-up Christmas list.
Not for myself,
But for a world in need.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

As children we believed
The grandest sight to see
Was something lovely
Wrapped beneath our tree.

Well heaven surely knows
That packages and bows
Can never heal
A hurting human soul.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end.
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

What is this illusion called the innocence of youth?
Maybe only in our blind belief can we ever find the truth.

No more lives torn apart,
That wars would never start,
And time would heal all hearts.
And everyone would have a friend,
And right would always win,
And love would never end,
This is my grown-up Christmas list.

This is my grown-up Christmas list.

A Little Time.

Friends know that I often refer to myself as "the last remaning Amy Grant fan." Clearly, I mean that in a good way. :-) But, one of my favorites by AG is one I think everyone could benefit from -- at least the lyrics.

I've recently gone through some junk that if I had been asked at the beginning of the process how long it would take me, I'd have never guessed a year or two. But you know, I didn't push it away. I processed, and dealt, and I refuse to apologize for that.

"Takes A Little Time" really speaks to that, and I appreciate that. A lot:

Takes  A Little Time

It takes a little time sometimes


To get your feet back on the ground

It takes a little time sometimes

To get the titanic turned back around

It takes a little time sometimes

But baby you're not going down

It takes more than you've got right now

Give it time

What's this walking thru' my door

I know I've seen the look before

Sometimes in faces on the street

Sometimes in the mirror looking back at me

You can't fix this pain with money

You can't rush a weary soul

You can't sweep it under the rug, now honey

It don't take a lot to know


It takes a little time sometimes


To get your feet back on the ground

It takes a little time sometimes

To get the titanic turned back around

It takes a little time sometimes

But baby you're not going down

It takes more than you've got right now

Give it time





Now it may not be over by morning

But Rome wasn't built in a day

You can name this thing a thousand times

But it won't make it go away

Let me put my arms around you

And hold you while you weep

We've been talking and talking

I'm sick of this talk

And it's nothing that won't keep


It takes a little time sometimes


To get your feet back on the ground

It takes a little time sometimes

To get the titanic turned back around
It takes a little time sometimes
But baby you're not going down

It takes more than you've got right now

Give it time




No you can't fix this pain with money

You can't rush a weary soul

You can't sweep it under the rug now honey

It don't take a lot to know


It takes a little time sometimes


To get your feet back on the ground

It takes a little time sometimes

To get the titanic turned back around

It takes a little time sometimes

But baby you're not going down

It takes more than you've got right now

Give it time

I love this sooooo much. Because, really, if you're going to process something -- or many things -- and really feel them, rather than just brush them under the rug like yesterday's dirt, and deal with them with the kitchen floods, you know that it does take time to get through things.

 

I don't regret one second of my processes, even though I know they weren't fun for others. Shocker: they weren't so much fun for me, either. :-) Just necessary.

 

And thank the good Lord above for that time.