Seize The Day - Carolyn Arends, 1995

 
 

I know a girl who was schooled in Manhattan
She reads dusty books and learns phrases in Latin
She is an author, or maybe a poet
A genius, but it's just this world doesn't know it
She works on her novel most everyday
If you laugh she will say

(Chorus)
Seize the day - seize whatever you can
'Cause life slips away just like hourglass sand
Seize the day - pray for grace from God's hand
Then nothing will stand in your way
Seize the day

Well I know a doctor, a fine young physician
Left his six figure job for a mission position
He's healing the sick in an African village
He works in the dirt and writes home to the cynics
He says 'We work through the night so most everyday
As we watch the sun rise we can say....

(Repeat Chorus)

Well one thing I've noticed wherever I wander
Everyone's got a dream he can follow or squander
You can do what you will with the days you are given
I'm trying to spend mine on the business of living
So I'm singing my songs off of any old stage
You can laugh if you want - I'll still say....

(Repeat Chorus)

 
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Carolyn Arends is classified as a Contemporary Christian song writer and musician. Based in Surrey, British Columbia, she also writes and publishes books, several to critical acclaim. Since her debut release of the album I Can Hear You in 1995, Carolyn has had 15 of her songs top the Canadian pop and US Christian charts.

About her creative inspiration, Arends confides, "I don’t write songs and books as much as I get ambushed by them," and on the subject of her work, "I write primarily about God because he is what captivates my imagination. The idea that we can know the Creator of the Universe, and that he knows us … I simply can’t think of any more fascinating subject matter."

Seize The Day, as I recall, hit me like a ton of bricks the very first time I heard it. Whether you believe in God, or not, anyone who has fought their own personal battle(s) on this earth can relate to the lyrics of this song.