Monday Motivation: Still
I like country music. I grew up listening to it – my mom was a huge Barbara Mandrell fan, and my dad always sang almost every word of A Country Boy Can Survive, every time it came on. So I guess maybe it’s hereditary.
So when I heard this song for the first time, I thought, “That would be a great post!” It’s Tim McGraw’s latest single, Still, which topped out at #19 on the Billboard Country Charts. I chose it for this Monday is because it speaks of a skill we all should develop more, one that is helpful in creating a more simple life – the skill of still.
Are things just way to complicated for you today? Does your motto seem to be more chaos, less life? All you have to do is just be… still.
Video after the jump.
Lyrics:
There’s a place I like to go,
Where I can here the cotton grow,
Where that train whistle blows,
A dozen miles down the road,
All I really have to do is just be still!
There’s a place I love to be,
My Momma, Daddy, my sister and me,
First time I ever saw the beach, back to 1983
All I really have to do is just be still!
When this world gets crazy,
And tries to break me,
And I had all I can stand,
I can close my eyes no matter where I am,
And just be still!
There’s a place that I can see,
Where my baby’s next to me,
Close enough to feel the heat,
All wound up beneath the sheets,
All I have to do is just be still!
When this world gets crazy
And tries to break me
And I had all I can stand
I can close my eyes
No matter where I am
And just be still
There’s a place I need to go,
Where the stained glass windows glow,
Every part of me is known,
Thank God I can go there,
Thank God I can go there…
Still.
