Calling All Angels

This has been a really tough week for me. We started school and I've been working super-hard to get my girls back into a solid routine. I've been getting up early but going to bed late so I'm exhausted. I've been putting all I can into being a great home schooler. Hopefully, I can start posting about some of that next week. I also made the very painful decision to quit my band this week-- I finally came to the conclusion that I needed to-- so I could focus more intently on my family and home schooling. My heart is broken over this, even though I know I made the right decision. It really hurts to give it up-- I LOVE singing and my band mates. :( So in addition to this, I was asked to sing this Saturday at the memorial service of a woman who passed away in an accident over Labor day weekend. She was the wife of a music acquaintance/friend of mine. I had only met her once-- she was young (40?) and had a 7 year old daughter. I remember thinking she was very nice and we even talked about getting our girls together. I can't imagine what my friend is going through with his loss. But as I practice the song he asked me to sing, I have felt with him the pain he must be going through. I have been constantly praying for him and his daughter. I am so honored that he would ask me to sing--He asked me to sing "Calling All Angels" by Jane Siberry. I've been practicing it in every spare moment I have. I'm so glad I've been playing my guitar again because it has helped me to learn it, it's not an easy song. Anyways, I wanted to post the beautiful words to this song, and ask anyone who reads this to pray for my friend that he and his daughter will be comforted. Please pray for me too, that I will do the song justice-- I am very nervous. I hope also that we will all remember to not take our loved ones for granted--we never know how long they will be with us. Life is such a precious gift. Those of us who have experienced loss know.  

You can hear this song on my playlist, it's at the bottom-- 9/12/08 Calling All Angels Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna, Santa Susannah Santa Cecilia, Santa Copelia, Santa Domenica, Mary Angelica Frater Achad, Frater Pietro, Julianus, Petronilla Santa, Santos, Miroslaw, Vladimir and all the rest a man is placed upon the steps, a baby cries and high above the church bells start to ring and as the heaviness the body oh the heaviness settles in somewhere you can hear a mother sing then it's one foot then the other as you step out onto the road how much weight? how much weight? then it's how long? and how far? and how many times before it's too late? calling all angels calling all angels walk me through this one don't leave me alone calling all angels calling all angels we're cryin' and we're hurtin' and we're not sure how... and every day you gaze upon the sunset with such love and intensity it's almost...it's almost as if if you could only crack the code then you'd finally understand what this all means but if you could...do you think you would trade in all the pain and suffering? ah, but then you'd miss the beauty of the light upon this earth and the sweetness of the leaving calling all angels calling all angels walk me through this one don't leave me alone callin' all angels callin' all angels we're tryin' we're hopin' we're hurtin' we're lovin' we're cryin' we're callin' 'cause we're not sure how this goes