Thanks God. Thanks for smiling on me. Thanks for taking a little song I wrote six years ago in a rent house in Clyde, Texas, all the way to national television. Will I ever understand your perfect ways? You never rush. You wait patiently – through my tears and frustration and impatient outbursts, sitting through the prosecutor’s evidence that you haven’t fulfilled your end of the deal. All the while with a pleasant smile, hands folded on your knee.
Then, when the time is just right – when a nation is buried in cold snow and winter gloom, you take a song, blow the dust off, and cast it out like seed in the Spring.
So thank you God. Help us all to see the Sun tracing the line of your smile each day – from horizon to horizon.
Elliott
awesome blog elliott
I know we’re friends, but you are also just famous enough now that it’s perfectly normal to celeb-stalk you. See you at church (insert creepy wink).
Elliott, Sharon loaned me a CD of 20 of your songs so I could listen. I love your style and your words are very inspirational. I love it that you seem so down to earth and that your family inspires you. My favs of the 20 are The Colors of My Life, A Few Simple Words of Advise, Anna and John, Built to Last, Bright Side, Til the Cows Come Home and of course, Yer Smile. The songs with the kids are very moving. Keep writing and singing. You are very talented and are a blessing to all.