What I Cannot Change

"What I Cannot Change"
Performed by LeAnn Rimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjRT6m4eec

I know what makes me comfortable
I know what makes me tick
And when I need to get my way
I know how to pour it on thick
Cream and sugar in my coffee
Right away when I awake
I face the day and pray to God
I won't make the same mistakes

Oh the rest is out of my hands
I will learn to let go what I cannot change
I will learn to forgive what I cannot change
I will learn to love what I cannot change
But I will change, I will change
Whatever I, whenever I can

I don't know my Father
Or my Mother well enough
Seems like every time we talk
we can't get past the little stuff
The pain is self inflicted
I know it's not good for my health
But it's easier to please the world
than it is to please myself

Oh the rest is out of my hands
I will learn to let go what I cannot change
I will learn to forgive what I cannot change
I will learn to love what I cannot change
But I will change, I will change
Whatever I, whenever I can

Right now I can't care about how everyone else will feel
I have enough hurt of my own to heal

I will learn to let go what I cannot change
I will learn to forgive what I cannot change
I will learn to let go what I cannot change
I will learn to forgive what I cannot change
I will learn to love what I cannot change
But I will change, I will change Whatever I, whenever I can


This song struck such a big chord with me. I will admit the first time I heard it I needed to sit down, then I had a little bit of a cry. After listening to it again I realized I had a new favorite - a little anthem for me. :) I've realized so much about so much recently.
I've really been trying to process this thing called life.
Life is truly what we make it.

Everyone has mistakes. Everyone has regrets. It's part of life.
It's learning from those mistakes. It's letting go of those things that we cannot change whatever they might be. It might be something you wish had done, something you wish you had not done, something about yourself, something about someone else, whatever it might be - there is so much we can not change.

We might not can change those things; but we do have things we CAN change.
It's learning to let it all go. It's realizing that no one is perfect - ourselves included.
It's finding that peace deep down inside - just knowing it is all going to be ok.
We do NOT have to let those things, the past, those mistakes, whatever it is hold us down.

I will change whatever, whenever I can.

Until next time...