Be Brave: Say What You Want To Say

Just discovered this song!!!

This has been one of the best parts of recovery for ME.  Learning to say what I want to say!  It feels SO nice to be honest.  It feels magnificent to drop the shame I carried for having negative emotions, thoughts, feelings, etc.  I can be who I am, and say what I want to say.  How seriously beautiful is that??

Dude Satan had me stuck for 26 years.  I thought I had to wear a dumb smile all the time and agree with everyone and make them all happy all the time.  What the heck.

Christ asks us to have honesty.  Integrity.  Virtue.  None of those words come with being fake.  He asks us to receive this great joy.  We can't know joy if we don't allow the sorrow and anger and darkness.  Finally I learned about pride, which kills and destroys honesty.  Pretending for the sake of pleasing others.  God would rather have us be real.

BRAVE

By Sara Bareilles

You can be amazing

You can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug

You can be the outcast

Or be the backlash of somebody’s lack of love

Or you can start speaking up

Nothing’s gonna hurt you the way that words do

And they settle ‘neath your skin

Kept on the inside and no sunlight

Sometimes a shadow wins

But I wonder what would happen if you

Say what you wanna say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I wanna see you be brave

Everybody’s been there, everybody’s been stared down

By the enemy

Fallen for the fear and done some disappearing

Bow down to the mighty

Don’t run, stop holding your tongue

Maybe there’s a way out of the cage where you live

Maybe one of these days you can let the light in

Show me how big your brave is

Say what you wanna say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

Innocence, your history of silence

Won’t do you any good

Did you think it would?

Let your words be anything but empty

Why don’t you tell them the truth?

Say what you wanna say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

With what you want to say

And let the words fall out

Honestly I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I wanna see you be brave

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you

I just wanna see you