Zoe's Got Something To Say

Last Saturday was an incredible display of the chaos that is our life. Jen worked. Kellen had to be at the game. Teia had to go to work, then wanted to go to the game. Kellen needed a flower for the dance. Izzi and Kellen needed money from their bank accounts.

Izzi was having 6 people over to eat Homecoming dinner. I was making prime rib for them. I had my little sis Charis coming over to monitor the dinner so I could leave with Jen, who was doing some intense cleaning, to go to high school to pick up Teia and Kellen so we could get Kellen's flower and take him to meet his date so that we could then go to see Matthew West.

A friend of mine knows Matthew and had offered some meet and greet passes to the show. Yeah, it was busy, but...Matthew West! It was what caused Teia to decide to forgo her senior homecoming and go.

So, we're trying to set a landspeed record on Highway 83, trying to get to the concert.

And we got there late. 12 minutes late.

And the guy said we were too late to meet Matthew West.

Which made me just stop and want to cry. Our day had begun at 5:30 that morning and almost everything had been done almost well. Everyone had gotten where they needed to go pretty close to on time. The food was done and the table set. We just missed the part where we met Matthew West.

So I sank into a chair at the show and started to go to my sad sad place. Matthew West came onstage and played some warm up music for us. He asked us if we were having a bad day. A bad week. A bad year. I really started to cry. The song he played next was one of several he has about living in grace. About yesterday being history. About how our story of grace is being formed as we live today. It was the perfect antidote to the poison in my soul.

The title track from his album talks about our lives of grace giving us something to say, and that we all have something to say. Unintentionally, Matthew had stumbled across a Trisomy anthem whose words would trump any medical professional with a anti-life attitude.

If you're living, if you're breathing...you've got something to say.

Oh, and after the concert, we got to corner Matthew and he met my oldest daughter, who picked him over homecoming, and my youngest daughter, who picked to live another day and keep telling her story.

Something To Say

Wake up, 7:32 AM
Can’t believe it’s time to do it over again
Yesterday, it took all that you had
And you’re wonderin’ if you’ll ever get it back
But the whole wide world is waiting for
Waiting for you to step out that door
Come on and let your life be heard today

You got something to say
If you’re livin’, if you’re breathin’
You got something to say
And you know if your heart is beatin’
You got something to say
And no one can say it like you do
God is love and love speaks through
You got it, you got it
You got something to say

Listen up, I got a question here
Would anybody miss you if you disappeared?
Well your life is the song that you sing
And the whole wide world is listening
Well the answer to the question is
You were created, your life is a gift and
The lights are shining on you today, ‘cause

You got something to say
If you’re livin’, if you’re breathin’
You got something to say
And you know if your heart is beatin’
You got something to say
And no one can say it like you do
God is love and love speaks through
You got it, you got it
You got something to say

And the world is listening now
And the lights are shining down
Shining down on you today, ‘cause
You got something to say

So just say it