We're Born to Shine

Anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows how much I love music . . . music that touches my heart, lyrics that speak to my soul . . . sometimes I listen to a song that I have listened to a thousand times and I will hear something different or be touched in a way that I hadn't been before.

I had that experience today with a Shawn Mullins song that I have loved for ages . . . the song is called "Shimmer" and I feel inspired to share. 

In this very challenging year, in the midst of an incredibly challenging month, I am reminded that we truly were born to shine . . . not just some of us . . . ALL of us.  Sometimes it helps to be reminded that we have a light inside us - and it's up to us to decide how brightly we want to shine. 

In the hopes that you find some inspiration yourself, here is the part of the song that spoke so loudly to me today. 

We're born to shimmer

We're born to shine

We're born to radiate

We're born to live

We're born to love

We're born to never hate

Here are the lyrics for the entire song, in case anyone is interested because it truly is a great song. I don't know this for a fact but I am guessing that Shawn wrote it after the birth of his child, at least that's how the lyrics always hit me. 

"Shimmer"

Sharing with us what he knows
His shining eyes are big and blue
And all around him water flows
This world to him is new
This world to him is new

To touch a face
To kiss a smile
And new eyes see no race
The essence of a child.....the essence

He's born to shimmer
He's born to shine
He's born to radiate
He's born to live
He's born to love
But we will teach him how to hate

And true love it is a rock
Smoothed over by a stream
And no tickin of a clock
Truly measures what that means 
Truly measures what that means

And this thing called our time
I heard a brilliant woman say
She said "you know it's crazy
How I want to try to capture mine"
I think I love this woman's way
I think I love this woman

The way she shimmers
The way she shines
The way she radiates
The way she lives
The way she loves
The way she never hates

Sometimes I think of all this that surrounds me
I know it all as being mine
But she kisses me and she wraps herself around me
She gives me love
She gives me time
And I feel fine

But time I cannot change
So here's to looking back
You know I'd drink a whole bottle of my pride
And I'd toast to change
To keep these demons off my back
Just get these demons off my back

Cause I
Want to shimmer
I want to shine
I want to radiate
I want to live
I want to love
I want to try and learn how not to hate
Try not to hate

We're born to shimmer,
We're born to shine,
We're born to radiate,
We're born to live,we're born to love
We're born to never hate

He's born to shimmer
He's born to shine
He's born to radiate
He's born to live
He's born to love
But we will teach him..