Better Days

Better Days

Robbie Seay Band

First of all thanks for listening to our song 

We hope this finds you driving in your car 

where ever you are 

Breathe out and breathe again 

Know that life is hard

But it's worth breathing 

Listen to me now 

for love, oh love 

It's waiting for you just to say 

Here come better days 

Here come better days 

Better days and a better place 

I know 

Secondly I'm all messed up so royally 

I stumbled my way here, but wait, oh wait 

Grace has found me, shaken up my soul 

Grace will follow where ever you will go 

Listen to me now 

Grace Oh Grace, is calling for you just to say 

Here come better days Here come better days 

Better days and a better place I know 

Green grass and I'm laying in the sunlight of you 

The wind is moving through the trees blustering you 

And the better days you bring, the better places found 

Feasting at your table I'm overwhelmed 

And I lift my glass drink to those who never gave up 

Clouds pass fading into memories gone 

And all I know for life is life and love and peace 

What else could there be? 

Here come better days 

Oh, here come better days

Better days and a better place 

I know

I have to believe that there’s truth in these words – that better days lie ahead. 2012 held some of the best and worst days of my life.

Graduation, getting my first “real” job, buying my first car, traveling to Romania – some of the biggest moments of my life thus far, moments that I worked long and hard for. And there were of course the thousands of “little” moments that made up the year, wonderful friends and family.

And then, just as I started my new job (which I still adore, in case you were wondering :) ), I received news that brought my seemingly perfect world crashing down. My sweet baby brother had ended his life. (Try going to tell your brand new boss that news without looking like a blubbering mess!)The days and weeks and months that followed became some of the simultaneously best and worst of my life. I was amazed at how people just showed up for my family. And now even when I think people have forgotten, I’ll get a sweet message from someone reminding me that I’m far from forgotten. And it’s ever-humbling to be reminded that I’m not the only one deeply affected by my brother’s death. Out of this tragedy, I’ve developed some wonderful friendships, some new and some “old”. And I have to believe that some good will come of this.

I know that every day is a new day, but there’s just something so promising about a new year. A chance to start fresh, to find better days. I’m not so naïve to think that the days ahead won’t be hard or that I won’t have bad days. But I’m filled with hope that better days are coming.

This comes from a blog that Jamie wrote on TWLOHA (you can view the rest of the blog here):

Welcome to midnight.

Another year comes to a close. Another year begins.

With a moment in between.

Why the fuss?

Why the fame and fireworks?

Is it more than hype? More than something else to sell us?

Is there something to this holiday?

Something true inside it?

Because isn’t there something inside of us that aches for change…

Dreams it to be possible…

To let go.

To hold on

To leave it behind.

To start again.

To be new.

Is it possible?

The rest of the blog is fantastic, but I just really love this part. It speaks of the hope and possibility that this new year holds. I know that 2013 still holds a lot in the “year of firsts” following Nic’s death. But I also know that I am still here. Still alive. Still breathing. And so are you. And maybe we both deserve to know that this is a life worth living. Not just getting through (although some days that’s the best we can do, and that’s okay.).

So this year I will learn to live in the moment. I will [try] to be healthier (like running a 5K every month, right Kristen and Lindsay?). I’ll be more aware of people around me. And I’ll make sure that my brother’s memory lives on.

I’m including here the Vision for TWLOHA. Even if you’ve read it 100 times, I encourage you to read it one more time. And try to believe these things are true. That they are possible. That 2013 holds the beginnings of them.

The vision is that we actually believe these things…

You were created to love and be loved. You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you’re part of a bigger story. You need to know that your life matters.

We live in a difficult world, a broken world…life is hard for most people most of the time. We believe that everyone can relate to the pain, that all of us live with questions, and all of us get stuck in moments. You need to know that you’re not alone in the places you feel stuck.

We all wake to the human condition. We wake to mystery and beauty, but also tragedy and loss. Millions live with problems of pain. Millions of homes are filled with questions – moments and seasons and cycles that come as thieves and aim to stay. We know that pain is very real. It is our privilege to suggest that hope is real, and that help is real.

You need to know that rescue is possible, that freedom is possible, that God is still in the business of redemption…We know that the first step to recovery is the hardest to take. We want to say here that it’s worth it, that your life is worth fighting for, that it’s possible to change.

Beyond treatment, we believe that community is essential, that people need other people, that we were never meant to do life alone.

The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence.

The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles.

The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world.

The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need.

The vision is better endings…The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love.

The vision the possibility that your best days are ahead.

The vision is the possibility that we’re more loved than we’ll ever know.

The vision is hope, and hope is real.

You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.

So goodbye 2012. I’m glad to let you go.

Here’s to 2013. To better days.