Climb Every Mountain

If you haven't heard about The Sound of Music, Live!, then you've been living under a rock for the past month. I was unable to watch the premier performance as it was a Thursday night, and my cable hadn't been set-up yet.

After I finished my four-hour present wrapping this afternoon, I switched from Neflix to cable to see what I could have on as I cleaned my apartment. Lone behold, NBC was replaying The Sound of Music, Live! I could not pass up this opportunity. I've now been watching it for almost three hours, and, of course, singing along to all the songs. It's not horrible. In fact, I'm enjoying it, but, I am a complete and utter romantic at heart. As I love The Sound of Music deeply, I'm desperately trying to ignore the poor acting, the stilted speech, and Carrie Underwood's strained singing while not comparing it every second to the original. My mind, however, has been running a comparison the whole time.

I've found a part which is just as good if not better than the original movie--when Audra McDonald sings Climb Every Mountain. I had watched the clip earlier, and it completely stole my breath. As I was listening this stanza would not stop repeating in my brain, and it brought tears to my eyes as I watched it again:

A dream that will need 
All the love you can give, 
Every day of your life 
For as long as you live. 

I like to think I'm not the person who pulls random connections from all over, but do it, and one sprang to mind as I watched the clip--my job. This dream, that I'm living, needs all the love and patience I have in me. Whatever I do in life, I want it to be a dream that needs all the love I can give. Love is a precious, and I want to be able to give all the love I've been given to those who are put into my life.