The Power to Heal
The cool breeze relieved the warmth from our skin after a hot summer day as my mom Cathi, Aunt Elaine and sisters Julia and Megan walked onto the OC Fairgrounds. We came to see Melissa Etheridge because she had beat breast cancer seven years ago and mom needed the inspiration. It’s been several weeks of chemo cocktails with seven more weeks to go. Nightly she listens to affirmations of healing to visualize the sickness leaving her body. She is open to whatever lessons this cancer may bring then tells it in no uncertain terms to get the $%^# out.As the first stars come out, Melissa takes the stage to an appreciative crowd. She’s equally grateful having sung in local bars to this crowd when she first moved here from Kansas as a young hopeful. The music is soulful and the lyrics autobiographical. Then she brings out the pink guitar and said, you known cancer, it comes from within, so I think we can beat it from within. The crowd cheered. Instantly we five began to cry and clutched at each other’s hands to the point of near blood loss. Melissa passionately encouraged those in a fight for their life to keep on keeping on and began to sing.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZHISEL4lk&feature=related]
“It's been years since they told her about it. The darkness her body possessed. And the scars are still there in the mirrorEveryday that she gets herself dressed. Though the pain is miles and miles behind herAnd the fear is now a docile beastIf you ask her why she is still running. She'll tell you it makes her complete
[Chorus:] I run for hope. I run to feelI run for the truth. For all that is real. I run for your mother your sister your wifeI run for you and me my friend I run for life. It's a blur since they told me about it. How the darkness had taken its toll. And they cut into my skin and they cut into my body. But they will never get a piece of my soul. And now I'm still learning the lesson. To waken when I hear the call. And if you ask me why I am still running. I'll tell you I run for us all
[Chorus] And someday if they tell you about itIf the darkness knocks on your door. Remember her remember me. We will be running as we have before. Running for answers. Running for more