Song of the day: You Could Be Happy - Snow Patrol

"You could be happy and I won't know
But you weren't happy the day I watched you go" - Snow Patrol

Here it is the sixth of July and it's time to go home after spending a wonderful time in the mountains for the fourth of July. (will post details later) Thursday night was hell. Got off work after midnight, stumbled to the car; got home and tumbled into bed. Friday night? Rinse and repeat. Saturday morning we got up and headed for the mountains that afternoon. The ride allowed me to marinate in my thoughts and to further my appreciation of all things good. This got me to thinking: Sometimes you need a little hell to make heaven seem just that much sweeter.

"You could be happy, I hope you are
You made me happier than I'd been by far"

My particular brand of Hell is kind of like...well... wasabi. Too much of it will leave you with such a burning sensation in your nasal passages, that you may never want to touch the stuff again. But just a little at a time is enough to add just enough zest to make your "sushi" of a world quite interesting.

"Do the things that you always wanted to
Without me there to hold you back, don't think, just do"

Yep, life is like that. As I look out... deeply into, and over these mountains, after having had a tough week; it is here where I am reminded again and again about the balance between heaven and hell...and that every now and then; if and when a big ole slice of heaven is presented; and pushed out in front of you, (like it is to me now)... you should just go right on ahead and take in a large chunk of it...stuffing yourself with as much heaven as you can possibly hold! I am also reminded that sometimes you just have to "go for it!""

I did....and didn't even burp.

And to top it off, I'm with my family and have a sweet little boy sitting in front of me.

"More than anything I want to see you go
Take a glorious bite out of the whole world"

Right now I have the splendor of heaven on earth right smack dab in front of me...leaving no space for anything else but an awesome appreciation of life and love.

There'll be plenty of room for hell...later on.

...Much later.

In the meantime, I tell myself:

"You could be happy..."