Blog: I Won't Give Up :: Center for Spiritual Living Capistrano Valley

Have you ever had a favorite song that you’ve listened to hundreds of times, literally hundreds, and then all of a sudden you hear it with new ears and see it in a whole new way?? That is what happened to me this morning…

I am a HUGE fan of Jason Mraz, have been since I first heard him my freshman year of college. His 2012 album, LOVE IS A FOUR LETTER WORD, came out the year I married my best friend and the most amazing man in my world. We danced our first dance to Mraz’s I’m Yours. We were lucky enough to see him on his album tour and caught him in Barcelona, Spain on the last leg of our honeymoon. It was a phenomenal show, the picture above was from that night. This album has become one of my favorites because so much of it sings to the creative process, to Love and Law and how we interact with it.

The song I heard (again) this morning, released in January 2012, is called I Won’t Give Up… maybe you’ve heard it? It is definitely a love song, and I’ve always heard it from the perspective of a person singing to the person they love.

This morning, while watching the video below, I heard it completely differently…

Imagine singing these lyrics to all your brothers and your sisters. All of humanity. All of us… right here, right now… just as we are, and just as we are not. Those that you love, and those that maybe you don’t love so much, or not at all.

Realizing that truly we are all one with the One, we all come from the One Creator of all Life… I know that Spirit, God, Divine Love is in us, as us, and through us. I have faith.

I won’t give up on us.

When I look into your eyes

It’s like watching the night sky

Or a beautiful sunrise

There’s so much they hold

And just like them old stars

I see that you’ve come so far

To be right where you are

How old is your soul?

Well, I won’t give up on us

Even if the skies get rough

I’m giving you all my love

I’m still looking up

And when you’re needing your space

To do some navigating

I’ll be here patiently waiting

To see what you find

‘Cause even the stars they burn

Some even fall to the earth

We’ve got a lot to learn

God knows we’re worth it

No, I won’t give up

I don’t wanna be someone who walks away so easily

I’m here to stay and make the difference that I can make

Our differences they do a lot to teach us how to use

The tools and gifts we got, yeah, we got a lot at stake

And in the end, you’re still my friend at least we did intend

For us to work we didn’t break, we didn’t burn

We had to learn how to bend without the world caving in

I had to learn what I’ve got, and what I’m not, and who I am

I won’t give up on us

Even if the skies get rough

I’m giving you all my love

I’m still looking up, still looking up.

Well, I won’t give up on us (no I’m not giving up)

God knows I’m tough enough (I am tough, I am loved)

We’ve got a lot to learn (we’re alive, we are loved)

God knows we’re worth it (and we’re worth it)

I won’t give up on us

Even if the skies get rough

I’m giving you all my love

I’m still looking up

(THANK YOU JASON MRAZ!!!)

I Won’t Give Up

Author: Amy Greenroyd