"Stay Strong"; teaching myself that sometimes being selfish is okay?

There is a song by the Newsboys that I absolutely LOVE. Ever since I heard it I was completely in love with it. When I first heard it I loved it because of the wonderful piano intro (I’m a sucker for piano, I wish I could play like no tomorrow). I never knew how much that it was going to mean to me in just some time. Now I feel like the song is speaking directly to me. Yesterday I wrote about this struggle that I have, that I have been keeping inside for a long time. But now I am learning to deal with it, I am teaching myself to “Stay Strong”. And every morning and every night that is what I am told. I am told to stay strong, and what I have learned so far, in these past few days, that just hearing that somebody believes in you and they know that you are strong, can help you overcome anything. But the one thing you have to have in order for this to work, is strength and belief in yourself. Here are the lyrics, they mean everything to me. I listen to this song at least once a day now, and am planning to write the chorus on index cards and stick them around various places that I go to a lot during the course of my day;

You're in the moment now
A bitter root
A wandering eye and then
The ties that bind start wearing thin, thin

You're in the moment now
When all you've been blessed with
Is not enough
Here's where the ground gets loose
Here's where the devils call your bluff

Stay strong
You are not lost
Come on and fix your eyes ahead
There's a new dawn to light our day, our day
You've gotta stay strong
You and I run
For the prize that lies ahead
We've come too far to lose our way, our way

We've seen the tragic flaws
The tortured souls
The saints with feet of clay
Here's where sin becomes cliché'

We've come through wilderness and watched
The cloud by day
The burning sky into dawn
Have you forgotten who you are?
Did you forget whose trip you're on?

Stay strong
You are not lost
Come on and fix your eyes ahead
There's a new dawn to light our day, our day
We've gotta stay strong
You and I run
For the prize that lies ahead
We've come too far to lose our way, our way

Get up, there's further to go
Get up, there's more to be done
Get up, this witness is sure
Get up, this race can be won
This race can be won

We've gotta stay strong
You are not lost
Come on and fix your eyes ahead
Our Father's dawn will light our day, our day
Come on and stay strong
His grip is sure
And His patience still endures
There'll be no letting go today, no way

Come on, and stay strong
You and I run
For the prize that lies ahead
We've come too far to lose our way, our way


Every time I listen to this I am almost brought to tears, and that doesn’t happen to me a lot while listening to songs, unless they really mean something to me or are speaking directly to something that is really heavy on my heart. I feel weird writing this blog because I feel as though all of the one’s that I write are for others, I love writing for others, but this one is mostly for me. Maybe that is just something I have to do. Maybe every once and a while I need to make things about me, and not about other people. I’m not sure about this newfound concept though because that sounds really selfish, and being selfish is one of the things that I am working really really hard on right now not to be, so I guess that we will have to see where this goes...