Everything’s Alright…
Yesterday on our Mama Renew facebook page we posted the query:
What’s YOUR favourite phrase or mantra to keep you going? C’mon, share the encouragement!!
I don’t want your responses to be lost in facebook land so here are just a few of your wonderful mantras:
Everything is going to be alright.
Many (many) years ago I had the joy of playing Mary Magdalene in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar in Lusaka, Zambia (!!) Mary’s opening song “Everything’s Alright” has become a source of great soothing to me. My husband sings it when I’m sick, I sing it to our boys, I sing it to myself…
I think in the end this is what it is all about. At the core, we know that we have what we need to move through this. “Alright” may look very very different from our ideal world, but it is indeed alright, and we can be fully present and responsive to what the moment demands of us (sounds a lot like birth, yes?).
Here’s a clip from the 1973 movie – enjoy!
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If I can just brag about Sarah for a second… During the beginning of our Jesus Christ Superstar show, the audience would happily enjoy our amateur enthusiasm. But when Sarah burst out into “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” there was electric attention, from cast and audience, every night. At the end of the song there would either be deafening and unending applause and shouting, or a reverential church-like silence of people who had just witnessed pure beauty and had no words for it.
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