Wish Granted!
Hope, Dreams and Wishes
When I was a kid, I loved Sunday nights. Surrounded by my family in the den (TV room), I'd sit at the bottom of the stairs leading up to my bedroom listening to the Walt Disney theme song start and end the family program.
Whether hearing "When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are" or "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep", the lyrics gently wafted into my brain and made me feel safe.
It was a cozy and calm family moment each week when I felt all things were possible, and no matter how dire the problem, there were no problems that couldn't be solved.
Some of my best childhood memories and beliefs were facilitated by watching Walt Disney Sunday programs and animated films, and having my mother read me fairy tales and other such stories over and over again.
My continuous exposure to these uplifting songs and hopeful messages laid a lyrical sound track in my head that helped me create a hopeful and optimistic way of seeing the world. Sharing a home with loving parents and scrappy, but loving, siblings made the hopeful messages ring true.
I learned bad things can happen to people but they can still have happy endings. Or people can make mistakes but they can recover and still be loved.
Lately I've been thinking about the difficulties people around me have experienced. Bad things have happened to some; and others have made mistakes.
Perhaps you are one.
If you or someone you know needs a moment to return to a place of simplicity, innocence and hope, take a moment to reconnect to these childhood songs and nursery rhymes.
Don't glaze over the words. Stop to truly absorb the meaning of these messages of hope.
Never Stop Believing
Hope Springs Eternal
When You Wish Upon a Star
by Leigh
Harline and Ned Washington
"When you wish upon a star,
makes no difference who you are.
When you wish upon a star,
your dreams come true."
"If your heart is in your dreams
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do."
"Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true."
"When a star is born
They possess a gift or two.
One of them is this~
They have the power to make a wish come true."
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do."
"Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true."
"When a star is born
They possess a gift or two.
One of them is this~
They have the power to make a wish come true."
May You Have Wishful Thinking!
I Wish I May, I Wish I Might
Star Light,
Star Light,
Star Bright,
First Star I see tonight,
I wish I may,
I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight!
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme
A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes
By Mack David
"A dream is a wish your
heart makes
when you're fast asleep."
"In dreams you will lose your heartaches
whatever you wish for, you keep.
whatever you wish for, you keep.
Have faith in your
dreams and someday
your rainbow will come smiling through."
your rainbow will come smiling through."
"No matter how your heart is grieving,
if you keep on believing,
the dream that you wish will come true."
Once Upon a
Dream (from Sleeping Beauty)
By Lana Del Rey
"I know you, I
walked with you once upon a dream
I know you, that look in your eyes is so familiar a gleam
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you, I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream."
In your moments of difficulty take these songs to heart: Hold on to your dreams and wishes~and know no matter who you are and what you're going through you always have hope, strength, and courage for the future.
Believe in Happy Endings
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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.
