Long Time No See!
I know, it's been a while. I have five or six more posts to do on here, so don't worry, I'm not going anywhere quite yet. ;) But why sit here and blah-blah-blah about stuff when I can give all of you what you've been waiting for this whole time?! One of my ACTUAL ORIGINAL SONGS. FINALLY!!! I know, you're jumping up and down and all around the room and your spouse or siblings are wondering what in the world happened this time. I can hear it now. "Okayy *insert your name*, who finally got together with who on your show?"
(one time, when my sister and I were watching a show which I shall not disclose the name of because it's super embarrassing, two people finally got together and we started doing cartwheels in the living room and rewound the part 3 times before moving on... of course it was only one time. Not like that ever happened again. Or when we were re-watching the show...)
You probably haven't even read any of this, which would really be okay now that I think about it... because you're so excited that you might've skipped over this stuff promising to yourself that you'd read it, AFTER you watched the music video.
Fine, Here You Go.
Okay... on the off chance that you actually have been reading this, Iv'e kept you waiting long enough.. ;) Here it is!!!!!!
Behind the Lyrics
So, originally, Kristen and I were going to make an "About" video to explain why I wrote the song and why we chose to make the music video this way, but that ended up not working out, so I've decided to write about it here.
I wrote this song at the beginning of this project. It was the third song I wrote. At this point, as I talk about in my song, I was so confused about God's plan, and honestly, I was really afraid I would "get it wrong." I just wished he would just tell me what my calling was instead of giving me a hundred different things I love doing to choose from!
In this past year, I've learned something. I've learned that God doesn't necessarily have one specific "calling" for your life. That He has a reason for each and every gift He gave you, and that you're supposed to use all of them! Yes, there might be something I'm supposed to do later on with my art, but for right now, He's called me to share my music. Yes I might be a dancer, or a writer someday, but for right now, I'll have to be content with my blog and my hula-hoop. I might be an actress someday, but for now, I'm good with the community plays I get to be a part of. I still get to touch people's lives and change things for them, even right now. Even though I might not be a "professional" in anything, the things I love to do still are touching people and changing them in little ways. Basically, I'm already making a difference.
God gave us a lotta' years on this earth, in which we can learn so many things and change a lot of people's stories in different ways! Who's to say that you're just called to ONE thing? No my dear friends, I believe that God gave us our hopes and dreams and gifts, so why pick and choose just one? If He only wanted you to use one of them, then by golly, you would only be able to do one thing!
Everything you do is capable of making a difference
The Music Video
I really wanted to convey this in my music video. It took us a few days, but we finally figured out what we wanted to do. We wanted to make this video full of me. My loves and passions, my hopes and dreams. Making special guest appearances in my video are:
- Brownies. (DUH. we had to have those.)
- My old dance shoes
- My journaling bible
- lots and lots of my sketches and drawings (on the back closet wall)
- My favorite stuffed animal from when I was little (Her name is Precious Teddy, in case you were wondering.)
- CAT <3
- The umbrellas I hand-painted
- My guitar
- Song lyrics that mean something to me
- My prayer Journal
- Hershey Kisses because any chocolate is good ;) (The empty wrappers are surrounding me as I journal, in case you missed that. ;) )
- probably a lot more, but I'm too lazy to go watch the video and figure it all out.
The first part of the music video in my room (actually Kristen's room cuz it's way cleaner than mine. Shhh. ;) ) is basically me figuring out who I am, and thinking about what I'm supposed to do. Then I realize that I love all of it. That really, there's nothing I want to leave behind. So, I pack it all up and go out into the world, with everything I have to give! (You should see some of the bloopers of me trying to walk out that door with all that stuff... it's pretty hysterical.)
We printed off all those pictures of things I've done like missions trips, and of things I dream of being or doing, to hang in the tree, first of all because it's totally a cool idea, and secondly, to show that I was accepting who I was. So I walk through it, sure that this is who I am made to be, and I'm totally good with that.
But then we have to deal with everything I felt at the beginning. My fear of not being good enough, all my insecurity, all the stuff that's holding me back from living and loving the life God wants me to live! That's when Kristen got the most brilliant idea ever of making paper boats and sending my fears and everything bad down the stream.
Honestly, even though it was for the video, that moment felt so good. I really recommend doing what I did in the video, if you can possibly find a stream somewhere. It feels really relieving to physically let those things go.
Then I'm up on the bridge. If you had been there, you'd know this wasn't as graceful as it looks in the video. Cars kept passing so we would have to get off and then get back on, and as soon as we were set up another car came. My skirt kept flying up in the breeze, Kristen kept laughing at me, I kept spelling the verse wrong. Haha, whatever, we got it to look pretty good in the end. ;)
"The heart of a man plans his way, but the Lord determines his path"
What a perfect verse to end our music video with. Turning this verse into a plane and sending it off the other end of the bridge was basically my final creative way of saying "I will trust in Him, I will take off and fly with what He's given me, and remember to let Him determine my path."
Ohh just thinking about all of our creative geniusness (most of it Kristen's, honestly.) makes a bubble of pride/giddiness rise up inside because it's perfect, perfect, perfect! :D
(Okay, now reading this post again I'm not sure if that sounded super prideful or not... I promise I was just really pumped up about the fact that we pulled it off!)
If you want to take a look at my little brother's handy work in turing it into a lyric video, you can check this one out!
Thanks for joining me today! I hope you liked the first song I have to share with you guys! I hope you had as much fun reading about it as we did making it. ;) See you soon to tell you about my next song!
~ Arianna Rose
