TOMORROW'S COMING

Tomorrow's Coming is for everyone who understands and wrestles with the journey of life, recognizing where they've been, where they are, and the limitless possibilities that still lie ahead. Every day can be a crossroads or made to be a crossroads. The past is not necessarily a predetermination of the future. What is most important is stated at the end of every other line of the verses: doing the best that I can.

It is very often the case that each of us is handed a script when we're born. It includes going to school, working hard, getting good grades so we can get into a good college where we'll work hard, get good grades so we can go to post gradate school or into the workforce where we get a good job, work hard, make money, buy stuff, and then have kids that we send to school to work hard, get good grades. To be honest, my parents never pushed me in one direction or another but supported my decisions for my life. I was convinced by school counsellors and others and the allure of "he who has the most toys when he dies wins" to go to college to major in business and accounting. But I never stopped being a musician taking saxophone lessons, music theory and playing in the school ensembles.

After my third semester and my first real accounting class I knew I could not do that for the rest of my life. I changed my major and literally lived out this part of the song: "So I'll take my chances- I slipped the script that's encrypted when I ripped down the veil. Live to the fullest - Grip it, rip it - won't get tripped up cause I'm not scared to fail. Staying in the moments - They slip passed, they go fast so we have to make each one last. Don't know the future - but I won't relive the past! Tomorrow's coming - It's a brand new day. Tomorrow's coming - I won't stand in it's way. Tomorrow's coming - And I'm ready to see. Tomorrow's coming - If it's ready for me?"

I'm blessed to be able to say that it worked out for me. I toured the world as a musician. I have lived the dream. I'm still living it. But I can also attest to the truth of the lyrics in the bridge: "I don't know what lies ahead for me, the final act's unwritten to my play. But I'm not scared of the uncertainties, and I wouldn't want it any other way."