Verse 1:
Looking in retrospect, I can see all that I've been through. It's almost as though time is flying by my face, and the only way to slow it down would be to clip its wings.
Chorus 1:
Our life is a book of chapters, and it is the type of book that keeps getting written until the day we die. This is when we start a new book that has no end, this time being co-written with God. I'll just pick it back up and run forward thanking God for all He's brought me through.
Verse 2:
My life is a piece of fabric, entirely composed of the colors and shapes and textures that were gathered through my past. The section that has been formed in the first 21 years of my life will always be there - it will never change - and I will only build upon that with new experiences.
Chorus 2:
Life is full of opportunities, and though a window may be closing now a door is opening. I'll just pick it back up and run forward thanking God for all He's brought me through.
Refrain:
Even though I can never relive what has happened, there is absolutely nothing lost here. I'm always going to have memories, and there's nothing that can take that away from me. Regardless, every day points forward to a future that is full of opportunity with so much more to be found.
Overall:
I'm graduating in a few months. One of my good friends is leaving today and I won't see her next semester...who knows when we'll hang out again. It's so difficult to face this with a smile, but God had other things to say. Life is good. All that I've had here at college has been wonderful, but when I leave, I'll leave with the hope that my future may even be twice as bright as my past has been.
Philippians 3:12-14
"I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection! But I keep working toward that day when I will finally be all that Christ Jesus saved me for and wants me to be. No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven."
"All My Yesterdays" written by Ryan Kavalsky, © December 16, 2004