Rise Up

There is song that I've been listening to by Andra Day called "Rise Up".  It is on repeat as an anthem.  It is half inspiration and half battle cry to keep pressing forward...to keep going...to keep leaning in...to hold hope close.  This past year has been hard...so hard...for so many people.  The responsibilities placed on each one of us have at times seemed insurmountable.  I've walked about a hundred miles around our neighborhood since March 2020...hoping to walk off the sadness, anxiety and depression that have sometimes followed me around like a dark cloud.  Somedays it has worked and life has felt lighter, and somedays the walk has been 30 minutes of sobbing to get out all my emotion so

You're broken down and tired

Of living life on a merry go round

And you can't find the fighter

But I see it in you so we gonna walk it out

And move mountains

We gonna walk it out

And move mountains

And I'll rise up

I'll rise the day

I'll rise up

I'll rise unafraid

I'll rise up

And I'll do it a thousand times again

And I'll rise up

High like the waves

I'll rise up

In spite of the ache

I'll rise up

And I'll do it a thousand times again