One Heartbeat

So I was sitting here the other day working on something or another... I think I was making my new desktop wallpaper? Anyway - I had Pandora Radio on in the background. Firstly, let me just share how magical that website is for me!! I have a few stations set up to reflect my daily moods. They are almost all based off of a singular artist that has a style I enjoy with my moods - There's some John Mayer for my secular "just wanna hear some good music" mood; there's John Williams for my cinematically instrumental moods and Hans Zimmer for my more mellow instrumental mood; Frank Sinatra for my classic crooner sound; Broadway for my "belt it out and sing along" days; and finally, Steven Curtis Chapman for the best that's out there. I can't begin to say how much I LOVE SCC's music. I told John the other day that I don't know if I've ever heard a song of his that I don't like. Some are a little more "eh" than others, but there has never been one that I've just shunned.

All that said... Pandora was running in the background and the second song that shuffles up is one I've never heard before. But the lyrics caught me right away - "You're up all night with a screaming baby..." Um... yeah, I was! Two of them, actually!! And so I sat back to listen. And wound up in pouring tears. Tyler wandered in at one point and got worried about me, but of course, his little face being concerned for Mommy made the moment even more intense.

I just wanted to take a minute to put these lyrics out there for my mommy friends. I hope they touch you as much as they did me. (And of course, you can get the song right now, as I did, on iTunes for $.99...haha!)

You're up all night with a screaming baby
You run all day at the speed of life
And every day you feel a little bit less
Like the beautiful woman you are

So you fall into bed when you run out of hours
And you wonder if anything worth doing got done
Oh, maybe you just don't know
Or maybe you've forgotten

You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

With every "I know you can do it"
Every tear that you kiss away
So many little things that seem to go unnoticed
They're just like the drops of rain over time
They become a river

You, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time
Making history with every touch and every smile
Oh, you, you may not see it now
But I believe that time will tell
How you, you are changing the world
One little heartbeat at a time

You're beautiful
You're beautiful
How you're changing the world
You're changing the world