someday soon

We find ourselves looking forward a lot in life, don't we?

I mean, almost no one is content where they are. We find ourselves in a never-ending series of 5-year plans and forward-looking seasons only to realize in 5 years that we've forgotten what the plan is and that we have a new one.

Usually, I would decry such living, but from time to time, it is the future that gets us through the present.

We refer to it as the "Someday Soon" after a David Wilcox song. Basically, the mystery and anticipation of tomorrow is often enough to drag us through even the most difficult today.



Someday soon is a wonderful thing. Someday soon is a day off. It is a vacation. It is relief. It is hope that tomorrow holds a miracle drug. It is children of our own. It is seeing friends again. It is embracing our parents, brothers, and sisters. It is the idea that the work of today might make a difference to the world of tomorrow. It is wrestling with Soren. It is cooking with Mom. It is the promise that was made to us. It is the promise we made to Him.

Someday soon is why we try. Someday soon finds us when we are empty and gives us just enough hope to satisfy.

Listen to "Someday Soon" by David Wilcox

Someday Soon

So we raced each other downhill on the sidewalk
And we raised each other, two against the world
And we promised not to bow, we made a solemn vow
To keep our Independence flags unfurled

So when the battles of the spirit left us stranded
Each went hiding in our separate ways
Ah, but carrying a candle to keep the fire burning
To find us here in brighter days

Someday Soon made a promise I will follow
Someday Soon is why I try
Someday Soon told me: "Take this cup of
Empty hope up to the well that's dry
Where there's just enough of Someday Soon to satisfy"

You have done all the adventures I have dreamed of
And I have run a different path but just as fine
Ah, but both of us have missed, we haven't closed
The distance on the destination peace of mind

For it seems as if it's always half together
There is no happy-ever-after magic wand
The lightning pulls the thunder, the distance
Pulls the wonder that calls us farther on

Someday Soon made a promise I will follow
Someday Soon is why I try
Someday Soon told me: "Take this cup of
Empty hope up to the well that's dry
Where there's just enough of Someday Soon to satisfy"

Now if heaven is perfection
I'll get my deepest questions answered
Like a child tears into presents
To a Christmas tune

But in that big hall, let there be a
Bright red ribbon that stays
Wrapped around the mystery
Of Someday Soon