Motivation & Miracles

We all have sayings that help us to get through the struggles life throws at us. When I woke up this morning, I had a song enter my head, and it has yet to leave. As I have listened to it and pondered the words and meanings, it has become motivational to me. We get down and discouraged during hard times. We can turn to our comfort foods, our de-stressing activities, or just clam it all in. However, when things pop into your head that could help, please look into them. They will help.

The words to this song were just what I needed to hear.

"When You Believe"

Many nights we pray with no proof anyone could hear
And our heart's a hopeful song we barely understood
Now we are not afraid although we know there's much to fear
We were moving mountains long before we knew we could

Oh yes, there can be miracles when you believe
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill
Who knows what miracle you can achieve, when you believe
Somehow you will, you will when you believe

In this time of fear when prayer so often proves in vain
Hope seems like the summer birds, too swiftly flown away
And now I am standing here, my heart's so full I can't explain
Seeking faith and speaking words, I never thought I'd say

There can be miracles when you believe
When you believe
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill
Who knows what miracles you can achieve
You can achieve
When you believe
Somehow you will, you will when you believe

They don't always happen when you ask and
And it's easy to give in to your fear
But when you're blinded by your pain
Can't see your way safe through the rain
Thought of a still resilient voice, says love is very near

There can be miracles
Miracles
When you believe
When you believe
Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill
Hard to kill
Who knows what miracles you can achieve
You can achieve
When you believe
Somehow you will
Somehow, somehow, somehow
Somehow you will, you will, when you believe

You will when you believe
You will when you believe
Just believe
You will, you will
Just believe
You will, when you believe

Songwriters
EDMONDS, KENNETH / SCHWARTZ, STEPHEN

This song was written for "The Prince of Egypt". The above-version is the one performed by Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. Below, is the version from the movie, from YouTube.

What a message. There can be miracles. They happen daily. Some choose not to look at them as miracles, and that is fine, but great things happen but we need to believe and have hope that this mountain we are climbing will show us exactly what we are needing.

Right now, I am looking for a miracle. Even thinking about what I so badly desire and hope will happen, fills my heart with gratitude that there is a possibility, even though I lose hope easily on bad days, when things get rough or I cannot do everything I want or need to do and cannot do everything that everyone expects of me. However, we can achieve almost whatever we set our minds to, though it may not be achieved in the way we want.

One miracle that I have hoped for is for my stomach to be restored back to it's working condition. That has not happened. What has happened, which is a miracle, is that I have accepted it and learned to make the best of it. That doesn't mean it doesn't hurt or that this acceptance came in the time I wanted it or asked for it. The important thing is that it came!

This song has become my motivation while I am earnestly seeking for the next miracle to happen. Is it easy. Not really. But, having this song in my head has helped me to do my part so that the miracle can and will happen. Think of something that motivates you to be better and use that to give you more hope and strengthen the hope you have.

Just remember this part of the song: "But when you're blinded by your pain, Can't see your way safe through the rain. Thought of a still resilient voice, says love is very near. There can be miracles"