...from way up here...

From way up here, I can tell you...

Have faith.  

Have faith in yourself.  Keep trying all the suggestions.  Keep doing what you're intuition tells you to.  Keep believing that there is room for improvement.   Keep asking questions and seeking out answers.  

And keep up all that hard work.

I know you're tired… I know you're exhausted…but don't stop to rest.  The breakthroughs (and there will be many) will come when you least expect them and are weary to the bone.  The miracles are on their way, but you are going to have to sacrifice everything first.  Give it all your time. Give it all your energy and all your emotion and all your strength.  I promise you, the results will be worth it, but you are going to have to give him your all. 

From way up here, I can tell you…

Have faith.

Have faith in him.  Diminish every disappointment for him, because he'll need you to put it in perspective.  Reward his efforts.  He's going to surprise you.  Catch him when he falls, and hunker down next to him when he's tired.  Follow that intuition of yours and celebrate every single step…every achievement…every success.  

From way up here, I can tell you…

There will be so many people who are wrong.

There will be so many predictions that are wrong.

So keep you chin up and push back, and don't you dare for a minute let it get to you.

From way up here, I can tell you…

This life you're living is going to be touched by magic.  Miracles are going to happen.   All the No's will be transformed into Yes's.  Things you thought impossible are going to change.  Dreams you never dared to dream will come true. 

From way up here, I can tell you…

Soon, so soon, it's all going to start.  You are already on the path.  That step you took way back there?  It's leading you all the way to here.  It's going to take you beyond even this moment.  

From way up here, I can tell you…

I want you to enjoy it this time.  Revel in it.  Stopping being such a self-conscious twit and let your guard down.  

From way up here, I can tell you...

You are going to sit in the audience at his fifth grade talent show and every single emotion ever will flood through you.  Every moment of every struggle that the two of you have gone through will flash through your mind as he gets up from the risers, retrieves his cello, and sets his music on the stand.  There in that crowded gymnasium, perched on a folding chair in the dress he picked out for you, you'll hold your breath as he picks up his bow.

He will begin his solo there, in front of children who have torn him down for years.  You will watch his face as he prepares...serious and determined.  That moment when he does just what you've taught him and shuts out the audience.  

He will begin to play.  The first note filling the silence...then the next and the next.  

He will give you back the music.  

That piece, played on that night, will fill you back up with every wish you've ever had for him and every tear you've cried.  

He will play. You will listen.  

And the music you sacrificed and thought was lost, will come pouring in.  

From way up here, I can tell you…

Go ahead and give it everything you've got, because he will give you back the music.

You will realize that you are the luckiest...ever.

~Leanna