Girl With the Golden Heart (October 2010)

From October 6, 2010

Today I got an email from Rebekah, my girl with the golden heart.  She sent me a link to a YouTube video with a note that said simply:

"(Link) This song reminds me of you.  :)"

So I clicked on the link and was watching the video (English lyrics below) when she walked into my room and saw me with tears streaming down my face and laughing at the same time. She wasn't supposed to see that. It was in Japanese with English subtitles and.... a little on the random side. She doesn't know it yet, but it made my day. They were happy tears because I am so blessed to have such wonderful children-- each one is so special to me.

My beautiful girl with the golden heart, Rebekah, a little girl, and a teenager.

Always kind, always giving of herself.

Always With Me (Itsumo Nando Demo) From the movie Spirited Away:

(not complete lyrics)

Somewhere, a voice calls, in the depths of my heart

May I always be dreaming, the dreams that move my heart

So many tears of sadness, uncountable through and through

I know on the other side of them I'll find you

Every time we fall down to the ground we look up to the blue sky above

We wake to it's blueness, as for the first time

Though the road is long and lonely and the end far away, out of sight

I can with these two arms embrace the light

As I bid farewell my heart stops, in tenderness I feel

My silent empty body begins to listen to what is real

The wonder of living, the wonder of dying

The wind, town, and flowers, we all dance one unity

Somewhere a voice calls in the depths of my heart

keep dreaming your dreams, don't ever let them part

Why speak of all your sadness or of life's painful woes

Instead let the same lips sing a gentle song for you

The whispering voice, we never want to forget,

in each passing memory always there to guide you

When a mirror has been broken, shattered pieces scattered on the ground

Glimpses of new life, reflected all around

Window of beginning, stillness, new light of the dawn

Let my silent, empty body be filled and reborn

No need to search outside, nor sail across the sea

Cause here shining inside me, it's right here inside me

I've found a brightness, it's always with me