changed for GOOD

My aunt and her sweetheart Ben put together pictures from this year's Thanksgiving. They set it to the song "For Good" from the Wicked soundtrack. It was a beautiful video of our family and special friends (Ben, Clint, Mike), a beautiful video of one of my favorite weeks of my life. Also today, my cousin Sam posted some pictures on facebook from Thanksgiving, and I love this one of the cousins (and Clint!) piled on to the polaris. I took some time to reflect on this weekend and my family and the love and strength I received from them this special weekend and continue to receive through recalling them in memory, and remembering their encouragement and prayer.

"For Good" - Wicked
I've heard it said
That people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led
To those who help us most to grow
If we let them
And we help them in return
Well, I don't know if I believe that's true
But I know I'm who I am today Because I knew you

Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you I have been changed for good

It well may be that we will never meet again in this lifetime
So let me say before we part
So much of me is made of what I learned from you
You'll be with me like a hand print on my heart
And now whatever way our stories end I know you have re-written mine
By being my friend...

Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a skybird in a distant wood
Who can say if I've been changed for the better?
But because I knew you
I have been changed for good

And just to clear the airI ask forgiveness
For the thing I've done you blame me for

But then, I guess we know
There's blame to share

And none of it seems to matter anymore

Like a comet pulled from orbit as it passes a sun
Like a stream that meets a boulder halfway through the wood

Like a ship blown from its mooring by a wind off the sea
Like a seed dropped by a bird in the wood
Who can say if I've been
Changed for the better?
I do believe I have been
Changed for the better

And because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
Because I knew you...
I have been changed for good.