I Hope You Dance
Named the CMA song of the year, I Hope You Dance is a challenge to make the most out of life: "And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance."\ This beautiful gift book by the Nashville team that wrote the song includes a CD with an acoustic version recorded especially for this book by Lee Ann Womack. This is the perfect gift not only for fans of Lee Ann Womack, but for a new graduate, for someone that needs encouragement, or for anyone who needs or wants to participate...
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"I hope you never lose your sense of wonder. I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance. And when you get the chance to sit it out or dance --- I hope you dance." With messages as simple as these, Mark D. Sanders and Tia Sillers have written this year s most memorable song --- "I Hope You Dance" --- recorded by Lee Ann Womack. "I Hope You Dance," winner of the 2000 Single and Song of the Year awards at the 2000 CMA awards, in addition to being atop the charts for six weeks, is now the subject of a book written by songwriters Sanders and Sillers with an introduction by the recording artist, Lee Ann Womack. I Hope You Dance takes these thought provoking lyrics that have touched the hearts and imaginations of people of all ages, the whole world over, and expands on their ideas of courage, hope, faith, love, and most importantly just getting out and trying. Filled with beautiful, full-color illustrations by Nashville-based Grammy Award winning Jackson Design, and containing a special acoustic version of "I Hope You Dance" recorded by Lee Ann Womack just for this project, I Hope You Dance is a wonderful way to tell someone you care about that you hope they jump in and experience all life has to offer. As Lee Ann Womack says in the introduction of this book about the song she made a hit across the globe, If my children understand the meanings of these lyrics when they are grown, then I have done my job as a mother.
I Hope You Dance with CD (Audio) \ \ By Mark D. Sanders Rutledge Hill Press \ Copyright © 2000 Mark D. Sanders\ All right reserved.\ ISBN: 9781558538443\ \ \ \ Chapter One \ How many times have my wishes and my dreams and my prayers for you hidden beneath my breath?\ How many times have I looked at you, heart in my throat, hands in my pockets, a smile on my face, just wanting to say ...\ I HOPE YOU NEVER LOSE YOUR SENSE OF WONDER\ WHAT IS HOPE\ What is hope? To want? To desire? To expect that what's envisioned may indeed happen? YES to all of the above. Is hope that gut feeling that it's worthholding out and hanging on for just a little longer? ABSOLUTELY. Is hope the core of the human condition? CERTAINLY. Can you have hope without faith and humility and wonder? THAT 'S TOUGH. Just the thought that there's something bigger, something truer, something totally surprising out there waiting for us is ... priceless.\ What would you be without hope growing deep in your bones, thriving in every inch of you? NOTHING.\ Hope takes never ceasing to be amazed ...\ Wearing your soul on your sleeve ...\ Holding your breath, waiting to hear "I love you, too ..."\ Believing that tomorrow could be better than today ... that you'll get a second chance ... that you'll make a difference ... that you matter.\ YOU GET YOUR FILL TO EAT BUT ALWAYS KEEP THAT HUNGER\ Hunger is the wanting: to see more to feel more to touch more to crave, desire, search out, find, hold more. And sometimes hunger hurts more. But go on, go west, young man, young woman. Plow the land, plant the seeds, grow the food for the whole wide world.\ MAY YOU NEVER TAKE ONE SINGLE BREATH FOR GRANTED\ SO BREATH OUT AND BREATHE IN\ (AND SOAK IT ALL UP)\ GOD FORBID LOVE EVER LEAVE YOU EMPTY-HANDED\ But if it does, may it leave you patient and stronger, willing and wiser, tender and tougher.\ I HOPE YOU STILL FEEL\ SMALL WHEN YOU STAND BESIDE THE OCEAN\ \ \ Continues...\ \ \ \ Excerpted from I Hope You Dance with CD (Audio) by Mark D. Sanders Copyright © 2000 by Mark D. Sanders. Excerpted by permission.\ All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.\ Excerpts are provided by Dial-A-Book Inc. solely for the personal use of visitors to this web site. \ \
