to ... Get It Right ..&.. to be Strong Enough

So, I'm watching a whole bunch of Glee music videos with my daughter and she's telling me who's who and I'm trying to learn who isn't who, as well as put faces to the voices and names that I have so often heard about from her. We're on YouTube and just randomly exploring the suggested videos in the right margin. I'm not a huge Glee fan but my daughter is and has been to the point that she has their music on her cell phone and a rotation of wallpaper images for her laptop.

I really enjoy how they take so many "old" songs and create their own up-to-date theatrical versions. Many of the songs they sing can really bring back some memories. From songs like "ABC", originally by the Jackson 5, to their mash-up version of Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf/Rio". With the recent passing of one of my great personal favorite singers, Whitney Houston, I felt especially very appreciative of their versions of her earlier songs. Then, we reached a song I've heard my daughter play before but this song, as I learned today, is actually a Glee Original song called "Get It Right".

As we watched Rachel singing, I was listening to the lyrics and I can't say the exact part of the song that did it, but my eyes started welling up with tears. I've asked myself these questions on several occasions through out my life.

[CHORUS]
What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
'Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me
To get it right

There are so many phrases in this song that really hit home for me. Can anyone else relate?

There's a different non-glee song that is trying to come to my mind that has a similar phrase in the lyrics but I can't seem to think of it just now. Uhmm...Lemme come back to this....

Complete lyrics to the song is below the video player:






Get It Right lyrics

What have I done? I wish I could run.
Away from this ship going under
Just trying to help, hurt everyone else
Now I feel the weight of the world is
On my shoulders

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
'Cause my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just want to fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me?
To get it right
To get it ri-igh-ight

Can I start again with my faith shaken?
'Cause I can't go back and undo this
I just have to stay and face my mistakes
But if I get stronger and wiser
I'll get through this

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
...
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take for me?
To get it right

[Bridge]
So I throw up my fist
Throw a punch in the air
And accept the truth, that sometimes life isn't fair
Yeah, I'll send out a wish
Yeah, I'll send up a prayer
And finally, someone will see
How much I care

What can you do when your good isn't good enough?
When all that you touch tumbles down?
Oh, my best intentions keep making a mess of things
I just wanna fix it somehow
But how many times will it take?
Oh, how many times will it take?
To get it right
To get it ri-igh-ight.

Lyrics source:
http://www.elyrics.net/read/g/glee-cast-lyrics/get-it-right-lyrics.html


Going back to the song that these lyrics was reminding of - I had blogged about this particular song before but I believe it was a private/friends-only blog on a different site a number of years ago. Any who, the song is by Stacie Orrico and it's called "Strong Enough". The questions that are similar in this song are:

Will my scars forever ruin God's plan?
~~~ and ~~~
Please can I have one chance to start again?

Complete lyrics on screen:



I believe the two songs are telling us to be strong, have faith, & to not give up on ourselves. No matter how much we mess up, as long as we continue to *DESIRE* to try again and to HO`OPONOPONO (make right) things in our lives, eventually life will work itself out in the end.


~*~ Jeremiah 29:11 ~*~
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (NIV)

Me ke Aloha nui,
~-FLOW+~

Poem: Love Heals Us

...but FIRST... and this is very important!!

If the Spirit *moves you* to do so..

pick a number 1 thru 6 or just simply PLAY any or all of these six "blip" songs that I blipped today [27JAN2010], in any order You feel like.. either after OR *while* ..you read the two Bible Verses and my Poem below!

Note: ALL links in my blog should open in a new tab. If you're not familiar with blip.fm, press SPACE BAR or the "PLAY" link to play song/video.
1) RT @FLOW828: "All the windows of my heart I open to the day." ~John Greenleaf Whittier #quote (via @Chillami) ♫ http://blip.fm/~jtfbi [ok, except I blipped this 1 ystrdy: 26JAN2010]

2) RT @FLOW828: RT @M_Hutchings: Become a fan & help promote positive body image: http://bit.ly/NzKlr & ....let the thoughts th... ♫ http://blip.fm/~jvgzp

3) RT @FLOW828: #lyrics You have a Way of moving me .. & it takes my breath away .. You are the thunder & I am Your LIGHTning!! ♫ http://blip.fm/~jvhyv

4) RT @FLOW828: Ephesians 6:12-13 #bible ~ "Love is a battlefield" #lyrics We are young.. We are strong.. There's no Way this w... ♫ http://blip.fm/~jw6nd

5) RT @FLOW828: Ephesians 6:12-13 #bible ~+~ #lyrics Why does love always feel like a "Battlefield"? U better go &get Your Armor! ♫ http://blip.fm/~jw7as

"Those who sing, pray twice!!!!"

6) RT @FL411: iLuv this Five For Fighting song ~> #lyrics "chances" are... only what we make them... and all I need =) ♫ http://blip.fm/~jwnys

Ephesians 6:12-13
¹²For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

¹³Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.

Poem: "Love Heals Us"

Aloha ke Akua.

God is Love.
Love is a part of Life.

Life is Change.
Change is a Process.

The Process is What Heals US.
What Heals is our Emotional Scars and Wounds.

Our Scars and Wounds preserve His Work
because His Work is not easily recognized

by us immediately.

In time we learn awareness

and the Battle signs.

We learn awareness of His battles for us

By Way of the Holy Ghost

Reminding us how

Each one of our Scars and Wounds

Have come to pass.

We are healed

By Way of the Holy Spirit

Telling us the truth and wisdom

In the Order of His Ways.

In being healed

We are able to love again and again

With more strength than before

In the knowledge of His truth and wisdom

by the mightiest power of

The Aloha Spirit.

written by ~-FLoW+~
Wednesday, 27-JAN-2010
8:40pm -10:04pm HST

Footnotes:

"Order of His Ways" is in reference to the Order & Prayer of St Francis.

The last three verses express my personal belief in the existence of a "Spiritual" Trinity.

<~*+*~> Past <~*+*~> Present <~*+*~> Future <~*+*~> ACTION <~*+*~>

Qoute: "Love is a choice you make from moment to moment." ~Babara De Angelis

Video: http://tr.im/cimday7

Question: How can I love you MORE?

Winners take ACTION!!!.....

For more of "The Course In Mastery" videos: http://tr.im/CiMpl or visit my video gallery http://francie.webs.com

For more of Barbara De Angelis, look for Day 19 & Day 20 videos in my playlist: "The Course In Mastery"