Let Me Be There

Where ever you go, wherever you may wander in your life

Surely you know, I always want to be there

Holding your hand, and standing by to catch you when you fall

Seeing you thru- in everything you do...

Let me be there in your morning, let me be there in your night

Let me take whatever's wrong and make it right

Let me take you to that wonderland where only we can go,

All I ask you- Is let me be there....

Ever since I was a little girl, my mom played this song for me. I used to beg and beg for her to play it- and I still do. I don't know what it is about that song; it just hits home for me I guess. She started playing this song when she was 16 and we still have the original sheet music for it, except for the two pages missing right out of the middle. So for most of the song, she plays by memory. Anyways, since my dad has been gone, this song has really touched my heart in a special kind of way. At times it feels like a wind blowing across my heart and I hear, "Brittany, let me be there." I guess the reason this song has touched me in such a unique way is because for 6 months I've been thinking that my dad can't be there for me unless he's physically here in my life, but that is the farthest thing from the truth that I've ever believed. Because he's here right now-in my heart and soul, in my strengths and weaknesses, in my accomplishments and failures, in my mind and my dreams... I can let him be there in my memory, and in all that I do and say. All I have to do is let him be there in his own way, now that he's no longer here to hug away the pain.

I love you, daddy, and I will forever let you be there for me until the day that I can run and jump into your arms while you swing me around, once I reach the gates of Heaven.

With all that I am,

~JM~