Your Joy (Inspired By Chrisette Michele)
My greatest ideas come either in the shower or while driving. They just do! I don’t know why, but I find myself often coming up with or processing things at those times. For the last month or so, I’ve been DREAMING hard lately. V and I sat down, not too long ago, and just talked about where we we’d like to be (spiritually, financially, living arrangements, family, educationally, etc.). It was fun! Ever since then, that conversation continued to float around in my mind every other day or so.
I then decided to take what we talked about and put it on paper. So, for the past couple days or so, I’ve been writing/tweeking “The McGee Move”. These are just our plans on paper that we 1) ARE IN AGREEMENT WITH/ ON ONE ACCORD and 2) HAVE ASKED GOD TO HONOR THEM. Asking God to honor our vision is perfectly fine. The tricky part comes in if things don’t pan out as we’d like them to. Then, what is our response to God? The trick to this is, We have to be okay with whatever He sees fit to happen, even if things are completely opposite of what we put on paper. That’s another blogpost.
After doing the writing, I found myself staring at the document and just DREAMING about those days coming to pass when the things on here would be accomplished. On “The McGee Move”; children were in the picture. As I got down to the children part, I dreamt for quite a bit. But on Tuesday during my commute to work, my iPod began to play Chrisette Michelle’s Your Joy. For those who do not listen to her; she is an excellent artist. Her track, Your Joy, is about the relationship between a daughter and her Father. She melodically expresses her love for her Father in the most simplistic joys like taking walks with him, lying on his chest while trying to match her heart beat with his, and so on. I began to DREAM about the day V and I have a little girl. I began to DREAM about taking walks with her, taking her on Daddy-Daughter dates, courting her so she know what it's supposed to be like when that time really comes.
Lord knows I want a boy so bad! However, I would be just as excited if He gave V and I a girl. I know how I am with my 3 goddaughters so I can only imagine how I'll be with my own! So, a special shout out to my Fathers who have daughters. A Father-Daughter's love is very special. Make sure you set the example of what a man should be.
Your Joy
Walked down the sidewalk
Staring at your feet
Wishing my steps were longer
So by your sides I could keep
Hold your hand much bigger
Never wanted mine to grow
So I could always feel perfect
Inside your palms just so
No one loves me just like you do
No one knows me just like you do
No one can compare to way my eyes fit in yours
You'll always be my father
And I'll always be your joy
Laid me on your belly
Nights when mama wasn't home
Lightning made me shiver
And you never let me feel alone
I tried to match your breathing
Beating my little heart against yours
Perfect were the nights we were sleeping
I never want to end what we are
'Cause No one loves me just like you do
And no one knows me just like you do
No one can compare to the way my eyes fit in yours
You'll always be my father
And I'll always be your joy
One day he'll come on bended knee
And ask my love away from thee
And when I give my love to him
You'll always have a place within
One day he'll come on bended knee
And ask my love away from thee
And when I give my love to him
You'll always have a place within
No one loves me just like you do
No one knows me just like you do
No one can compare to the way my eyes fit in yours
You'll always be my father
And I'll always be your joy.
