Last night I had a wonderful date night with my husband. We can talk for hours and never get tired, I love it!! On the drive home he told me that every time he hears the Dixie Chicks song, "Wide Open Spaces" he thinks of me. I so appreciate him telling me this because I think it is a wonderful example of what I am discovering about myself, and something he recognized about me a long time ago...
I need to be free! I need wide open spaces - not just physically but emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
There is a verse in the Bible that says: "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." (Gen. 1:27).
This says that God created all of us in His image, but I feel like that is especially true with me on another level --- I believe God is the Great Creator, the Greatest Artist there ever was, and that he created everything we see and when God created me he gave me a Creative Spirit, an Artist within, just like Him!
I am so thankful for this gift and for the first time in my life I'm trying my best to let this sweet, innocent, creative person inside me out - I'm setting her free. I'm learning that to do this I need freedom, I need space, I need to be surrounded by nature, I need to breathe fresh air, I need to feel the sun on my face, I need to splash in the rain, I need WIDE OPEN SPACES. And when it comes to my relationships with the people I love, I need freedom there too - freedom to be who I am, freedom to explore, freedom to follow my heart and freedom to surround myself with people who encourage and want what's best for me.
I am a person who likes and needs alone time, time by myself to think, to breathe, to feel, to create. I need wide open spaces emotionally to help me process life and then be able to fully re-engage with the world/people around me.
I love wide open spaces! I need wide open spaces! And I am so grateful that I have a God who walks with me, as a friend, in those spaces!
Here are the lyrics to the song if you aren't familiar with it...
"Wide Open Spaces"
Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
[Chorus:]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the high stakes
As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know
[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
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