As I walked out the back door tonight to take the garbage out, I was overwhelmed by the singing of the frogs in the pond and the music of the crickets chirping. And I thought…”I love this.” It brought to mind the following song.
Simple Life
I have wandered this world far and wide
I’ve been all around to the other side
But there’s nothin’ like comin’ home
Nothin’ like comin’ home
I wanna sit on my front porch and drink my lemonade
Cut my grass after church every Sunday
And go out on Saturday night
Live the simple life
Wake up in the morning to these fields of gold
And take a long walk down a gravel roadSpend my days in the sweet sunshine
Rock in my swing and watch my garden grow
Know that I’ll always have someone to hold
Oh I wanna live the simple lifeI wanna take a blanket down to the creek
And let the water sing me to sleep
Let go of time
Live the simple life … oh yeah
Lately I’ve seen too many city lights
I wanna go somewhere where I can see the stars at night
That is really what I want. The only problem is in the next moment, I will be reading my National Geographic Adventure magazine (the best magazine in the world), and will be dreaming about traveling around the world and exploring places that I’ve never been, and living a life of adventure. That is also really what I want. But they are somewhat contradictory desires….living the simple life in smalltown USA with a husband and a family, or living the single life of adventure while traveling the world.
I want to do it all….which brings to mind another country song:
I Wanna Do It All
I’m sitting in traffic
For the 5th year in a row
Wasting my time
Just to get
Where I don’t even wanna go
I started jotting things down
On a krispy kreme sack
Everything I’d do
If I could leave this place
And never look backI wanna do it all
Visit paris in the fall
Watch the Yankee’s play ball
I wanna take it all in
Catch a few beads
Down at Mardi Gras
Start a tradition
Lay down the law
I wanna do it allI want to drink tequila
Down in Tijuana
Say why not
When somebody says
Hey do you wanna
I wanna get my heart broke
Once or twice
Settle down with the love of my life
Rock little babies to sleep at nightI wanna spend a day
Every now and then
Just doin what I want to do
When I wanna do it
Anytime I wanna do itI wanna do it all
See Niagara falls
Fight city hall
Feel good in my skin
Beating the odds
With my back to the wall
Try to rob Peter
Without paying Paul
I wanna do it all
My name is Rhonda. I am blessed to live in a beautiful place out in the country with my wonderful husband. In addition to our "real" jobs (I work at a garden center and he is a teacher), we have a small farm where we raise vegetables, eggs and chickens to sell at local Farmer's Markets. We are currently fixing up/remodeling a house into which we will soon be moving...hopefully. In my free time, (what is that?) I enjoy traveling, cooking, crafty projects, reading and watching the sun set on the hills.
who are the songs by?
Dude, I didn’t know you were a country fan…?
I know what you’re sayin’ about the desires being contradictory. I think right now the “simple life” is winning out for me, mainly because I am in college and it’s about as far from smalltown simple life as it could be.
*sigh* Glad God knows what will make us happiest and good, and that He’s the Ommipotent God of the Universe who works all things to our best, eh? (how many days til you leave for africa?)
The Simple Life is sung by Carolyn Dawn Johnson. And I Wanna Do It All is sung by Terri Clark.
And I love country music, Sarah.
And I’m so glad that God is in control, because with my conflicting desires, I’m pretty sure I’d screw it all up.