Defying Gravity

2009 just keeps throwing things my way...sound familiar...I'm thinking it's not the year, but just my life that was set up for some interesting adventures.....these adventures get interesting....some come and go frequently....but one thing comes back over and over and over...my faith....my ability to conquer the next mountain....by climbing....by defying gravity.

No one said life would be fair...no one said you'd get everything that you want....but I know for sure....I want to live my life with unlimited potential and success. It may take me longer on some mountains, but I do get those dang things climbed....some eventually! :) Sometimes I even run up them...others I have to stop and sit on the side of the mountain for a long time....but I still don't stop for long.

I may be crazy...I may take too long to get a lesson...but at least I still sign up ffor each climb after climb once I figure out what that mountain means for me. I try to look into my tool shed of climbing gear to see if I can reuse or recycle....now time to time...I like to get into what I call the hamster wheel....it just looks like it won't be the hamster wheel...until one day I look around...hit my forehead with my palm...and go...dang it...I'm back in the hamster wheel...I do eventually get out of it...and continue to climb my mountain.

This may confuse you...and that is fine...but I'm feeling very empowered today...which means I've just stepped out of another hamster wheel that I so graciously got stuck in...I was working my butt off, but not getting anywhere! :)

All I know for sure in whatever life brings any one of us....get your gear and start climbing whatever your mountain looks like...it's important to give a shout up to God to see what you need to be doing...it's harder when you try to do it on your own...at least that's what happens for me.

Just remember that no matter how down you get...or stuck...remember to have unlimited possibilities....I dare you to "defy gravity"......that's what I'm doing right now....I may not win all the battles, but I know I will win the war...with the help of my heavenly father! GOOD LUCK!

Listen to this song...it's just one song that got me pumped up the past two days! :)

Sincerely,

A woman "Defying Gravity" as we speak, Chrissy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"Defying Gravity"
music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz
(Copyright by Stephen Schwartz. Used with permission.)
GLINDA
Why couldn't you have stayed calm, for once! Instead of flying off the handle -- !
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy now
I hope you're happy how you've
Hurt your cause forever
I hope you think you're clever

ELPHABA
I hope you're happy
I hope you're happy too
I hope you're proud how you would
Grovel in submission
To feed your own ambition

GLINDA & ELPHABA
So though I can't imagine how
I hope you're happy
Right now

GLINDA
Elphie, listen to me. Just say you're sorry!
You can still be with The Wizard
What you've worked and waited for
You can have all you ever wanted -

ELPHABA
I know
But I don't want it - No!
I can't want it anymore
Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I'm through with playing by
The rules of someone else's game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It's time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes
And leap...
It's time to try defying gravity
I think I'll try defying gravity
And you can't pull me down

GLINDA
Can't I make you understand
You're having delusions of grandeur?

ELPHABA
I'm through accepting limits
Cuz someone says they're so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try I'll never know
Too long I've been afraid of
Losing love I guess I've lost
Well if that's love
It comes at much too high a cost
I'd sooner buy defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye, I'm defying gravity
And you can't pull me down!
Glinda, come with me. Think of what we could do - together!

Unlimited
Together we're unlimited
Together we'll be the greatest team There's ever been - Glinda!
Dreams the way we planned 'em

GLINDA
If we work in tandem

GLINDA & ELPHABA
There's no fight we cannot win
Just you and I, defying gravity
With you and I defying gravity

ELPHABA
They'll never bring us down!
Well, are you coming?

(GLINDA decides to stay behind.)

GLINDA
I hope you're happy
I hope your happy now that your choosing this -

ELPHABA
You too--I hope it brings you bliss

GLINDA & ELPHABAI really hope you get it
And you don't live to regret it
I hope you're happy in the end
I hope you're happy my friend

ELPHABA
So if you care to find me
Look to the Western sky!
As someone told me lately
Everyone deserves the chance to fly
And if I'm flying solo
At least I'm flying free
To those who ground me
Take a message back from me!
Tell them how I am defying gravity
I'm flying high, defying gravity
And soon I'll match them in renown
And nobody in all of Oz
No Wizard that there is or was
Is ever gonna bring me down!!

GLINDAI hope you're happy

CITIZENS OF OZ
Look at her
She's wicked
Get her!!

ELPHABA
Bring me down!

CITIZENS OF OZ
No one mourns the wicked
So we got to bring her -

ELPHABAAhhhh!

CITIZENS OF OZ--Down!