Sing your song

​We all have those songs. We're driving down the road and a song comes on the radio and without thought we're playing drums on the steering wheel and singing along. The guy sitting next to you at the traffic light wondering if he should call 911.

For me one of those songs is Bruce Springsteen and Thunder Road.

Or Coldplay and A Sky Full of Stars.

Or anything Maverick City Music.

There are many, really. I mean there ARE a lot of traffic lights...

The thing is, all of those songs that make us sing along - which I have to believe is at least a part of the dream behind every song writer and singer - you write them and sing them for the first time without knowing if anyone will ever sing along.

If anyone will ever be banging on their steering wheel.

I think sometimes we don't chase our dreams because we're afraid our dream won't be a hit. But very hit was at one time NOT a hit. Every song we sing along to was once someone simply brave enough to piece it together in a basement or a garage or alone at the piano in their living room.

Singing it alone.

I'm afraid we don't share our songs. Or share our writing or our thoughts with the world. We don't share our ideas at a meeting. We don't tell someone how we feel. There are so many things we don't do because we're afraid we'll be left standing all alone with our idea or our thought or our feeling.

But you are already alone with that thing. You're alone with it and wondering - if I sing this song, will anyone sing along.

There is beauty in having that question answered. Even if no one ever sings along, there is beauty in being brave enough to put the song out there.

Because life is better when we're brave enough to sing every song we have some desire to sing.

Life is better when we sing the things we've been holding on to.

The world can't have too many songs.

Sing yours this week.