It's so fun watching you grow Jace. You truly take life in. You understand intuitively what you see. You quickly picked up a law of the universe that our words are powerful and can literally alter reality. I'll never forget you learning this lesson one day. We were getting out of the truck and you were carrying a water melon and you announced "I feel like I'm going to drop this" and laughed. When we got in the house, you sure enough dropped the watermelon. That's when I told you our words are powerful. Be careful what you say. From now on you even catch me being negative and remind me "not to put that out there." You were eight years old when you learned that.
I love the songs that speak to you. You recently found "run" by one republic. It's a great song so I decided to look up the lyrics and why the writer wrote them. His name is Ryan Tedder and he wrote the song in response to the COVID propaganda dominating the news cycle. He said he learned a long time ago to turn off the news, focus on the positive, reject the negative, count your blessings, and keep your eyes on the rising sun, or the wonders of God and this Universe.
I literally couldn't teach you a better lesson myself. COVID has been a weird time. We have almost a split universe. One set of people listen to the news daily, stay in fear, and step in line with every recommendation. Your dad and myself are not part of this universe. We are in the other realm. Ryan Tedder's realm. Turn off the news. Trust God, yourself, and your intuition because your intuition is the truth. Not media propaganda. We live our life and I hope when you grow up you remember this time not as one of fear, but of one as intense spiritual growth and understanding that you will never forget.
In an interview with Ryan Tedder about his song Counting Stars, another favorite of mine, he said the idea came to him because people need to be writing about life and faith and hope. I think you could be like him Jace. You have music in your soul, you're creative, and you technically already wrote your first song at 9! Now granted it was about a tractor called "bumpin along the road" but still! Everyone starts somewhere.
No matter what you decide to do or be though, I know you are going to be amazing!
I also love your long hair. You are an absolutely beautiful boy with a beautiful heart and soul and I love you more than words could ever say.
Love,
Mom
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