A Song by Garth Brooks; a poem by Norma Budden
Well, an important question to ask yourself is this: What happens if tomorrow never comes? What happens if your loved one passes on unexpectedly or you go to sleep and never get another opportunity to voice the words, "I love you?"
Our thoughts have the ability to take a different direction when posing such sobering questions and, by taking that step, it could mean the difference between living life ... and living life to the fullest.
Lens Contents Below
- Garth Brooks: If Tomorrow Never Comes
- Check out Garth Brooks' website!
- Three Simple Words
- What would happen if I lost someone close to me?
- Garth Brooks Music
- Despite it all...
- Not waiting another minute
- If Tomorrow Never Comes
- Time is precious
- Tell someone you love them
- Saying the phrase, "I love you..."
- What's your answer?
- Feel free to check out these lenses!
- Please share your thoughts with me
Garth Brooks: If Tomorrow Never Comes
The lyrics
Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping.
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights and lay there in the dark.
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning,
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart?
(chorus)
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her?
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one?
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me.
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes?
'Cause I've lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them.
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed.
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me,
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel.
*chorus*
So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes...
Here's my favorite link:
Three Simple Words
"I love you..."
Words spoken between couples, between parents and children, amongst friends and siblings, amongst the rich and poor, between a Creator and His Creation...
The most beautiful and amazing words on Earth; they carry more power than the human mind can comprehend.
To speak these words should not be a source of embarrassment; instead, one should feel a source of pride.
What would happen if I lost someone close to me?
It would feel especially terrible if the person died not knowing that I cared...
I lost my maternal grandfather as a teenager and my heart felt ripped in two, though I didn't allow anyone to see my tears; I didn't go to the funeral but, instead, paid a visit to his grave site after the funeral was over and school classes were finished for the day.
Though not through death, I feel I've lost my maternal grandmother who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's; she can no longer remember me. I'm thankful, however, that when she did know me, I called every couple of months and we had good conversations over the phone.
I've lost friends in the community in which I live; some of them have committed suicide and that's always the most difficult to endure because it leaves so many questions without answers. The question "Why?" is seldom far from thought.
I've lost friends to cancer; I will never see their smiling faces nor joke with them, nor hold their hand again. Never again will I take their photos. It's sad and, most tragic of all, is that it's a part of life; we never get to hold onto a person, in a tangible sense, forever.
Parents die at young ages leaving small children behind who continue to search for their parents. Elderly people pass on and the younger people wonder who they will turn to when they need advice. Small children become ill, are killed as a result of vehicular accidents and are too often abducted.
The list goes on ... and the longer the list becomes, the sadder it all seems ... the tears fall like rain and you wonder how you will ever clean up the mess your tears have made, deep in your soul where no one can truly see.
If you shed more tears than you smile; if you have more nights when you are restless than when you're resting well; if you cry for no apparent reason - please visit When Darkness Settles In.
Garth Brooks Music
Double Live Garth Brooks
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If Tomorrow Never Comes
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Garth Brooks: Hitting the High Notes
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The Ultimate Hits
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No Fences
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Despite it all...
Many people just can't say those three words comfortably; they feel the phrase, "I love you" has to be the hardest expression to get out of their mouths...even when their hearts feel overwhelmed by love.
But it comes at a high price later - when the time comes that a person no longer can say it to someone and wishes the opportunity could present itself again.
Not waiting another minute
Time is too precious
My family: it depends on what you view as a family. If it's my immediate family who live in my house - my children - they most assuredly know I love them, even if I am busy trying to provide for their needs on a daily basis.
My other family would be the family I lived with as a child: my parents, my brother and sister. I could tell them more often that I love them instead of being too busy to pick up the telephone.
Anyone else - my parents' families as children - I've learned to be selective about; anyone that I'm truly close to I refer to as my friends, who will be in my life forever...and they know I treasure them.
If Tomorrow Never Comes
A poem by Norma Budden
I listened to Garth Brooks singing, If Tomorrow Never Comes and it impacted me as never before; whether that's because I've never loved a person, and relationship, as strongly in the past as I do now, I don't know.
All I know is that I could not help but write this poem and I could not think of a more appropriate title than that of the song I was listening to just before writing the poem you are about to read.
Dedicated to Owen Foss, these are my words to you - from my soul to yours:
If Tomorrow Never Comes
My heart and soul - they feel so full;
I think of you most of the day.
My love for you is oh, so strong
And, in my mind, a song does play.
It makes me wonder about our lives,
About the love and hope we share.
I ask myself a thousand times,
"What else can I do to show I care?"
I try to do my best each day
To prove how much you mean to me.
I fill the tablets of my heart
With words that you are sure to see.
Truly, I couldn't ask for more;
You light up the darkness in my soul.
My world revolves around your love;
I see a dove and I feel whole.
Today, our dream is to live forever
Though we know that it cannot be.
One of us will be the first to leave
And the other will feel lost at sea.
I don't want that day to come,
But if it comes that I should pass
I'd like to know deep in my soul
That our love was built to last.
And so, today, I grant to you
Everything I am, all I can be.
In this life and the one beyond
Our love will always set us free.
Norma Budden
October 1, 2009
Time is precious
You don't know how much, or how little, time you may have to build relationships with those you love most.
You may live for years but your friend down the street, unknown to you, may only have a week or two to live.
Your parents may live into their 80s or 90s - but what if they don't?
Let's not waste opportunities to reach out to those we love with the important words that can enhance their day and, possibly, save their lives.
Go ahead...
Say "I love you" today!
Tell someone you love them
in your own words
Golden Splash, as this photo is so aptly named, is a Pigeon Lake sunset photo; it continues to fill my heart with a song of thanksgiving and joy. There's something about the photo that captivates me and throws me back into another time and place - another lifetime, or so it seems. The sun spreads her rays across the sky and lake so that the human eye is basked in sheer radiance. Could anyone ever ask for a greater gift than to watch this spectacle unfold?
Darkening clouds over Pigeon Lake - it's at this point when I know the sun won't be around much longer. Sadly, I know I will sleep through its counterpart - sunrise - but I'm thrilled at having had the opportunity to experience this particular sunset - and watching its various phases. I enjoyed the opportunity to watch today preparing to say, "Good-bye," in preparation of welcoming tomorrow with it's hopes, dreams and possibilities. Saying the phrase, "I love you..."
What's your answer?
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Please share your thoughts with me
I would truly love to hear what you feel about this lens.
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- Norma_Budden Norma_Budden Oct 22, 2009 @ 8:01 pm | in reply to rms
- Thanks! I'm glad you liked it.
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- rms rms Oct 17, 2009 @ 9:20 am
- This is lovely!
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- Norma_Budden Norma_Budden Oct 12, 2009 @ 2:35 am | in reply to hayleylou
- Well, I most certainly am glad that you did not lose your husband. Life has enough tragic moments without losing a person we love dearly...and life is much better when we take those moments to really appreciate life's blessings, whether in the form of people closest to us or the enjoyment we gain from nature or doing things we enjoy.
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- hayleylou hayleylou Oct 7, 2009 @ 5:04 am
- I very nearly lost my husband a few years ago only a year into our marriage. Whilst it was an awful experience, it does make you appreciate each other. Great poem, great lens, 5 stars
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- Norma_Budden Norma_Budden Oct 3, 2009 @ 11:37 pm | in reply to Owen
- I never would have thought of this lens containing characters - but you're right; it's similar to characters in a story because readers get to know thoughts and feelings which they may, otherwise, never know. Of course, YOU have the upper hand where my thoughts and feelings are concerned ... but I'm really happy you liked the lens as well as you did. :)
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