National 4-H Week!

The first week in October is National 4-H Week here in America! 4-H is a youth development club devoted to teaching youth citizenship, leardership, and life skills needed for life! While learning these skills, you have the best time of your life, make the best friends ever, and make some memories that last forever! 4-H truly was the best thing that ever happened to me! So here you go...a Post dedicated to my favorite club...the club that taught me how to give a speech, how to show a sheep, make a mid south winning poster (yes im bragging there :), how to be a sucessful leader, give interviews and demonstraions, in some cases sing and dance, hide from tornados (ha...this is true though), took me on some of the best trips, introduced me to the best friends i could ever ask for (including both my college roomates!), and holds a place in my heart so deep that i tear up just at the wonderful memories.

At the end of Every 4-H event here in Tennessee, we hold a 4-H dance. At the end of every dance...we play the song titled "The Dance" by Garth Brooks. It's the perfect ending to every event. We cry, hug, sway, and sing along to the words as we think about how they remind us of our own journey through 4-H and Life in general. So here are the words (for all you 4-Hers in honor of National 4-H week) to the Dance!

Lookin' back,On the memory of

The dance we shared, (be)Neath the stars above

For a moment,All the world was right

How could I have known,

That you'd ever say goodbye?

And now,I'm glad I didn't know
The way It all would end

The way It all would go

Our lives,Are better left to chance

I could have missed the pain,
But I'da had to miss the dance.

Holding you,I held everything

For a moment,Wasn't I a king?

But If I'd only known,

How the king would fall

Hey who's to say,

You know I might have changed it all

And now,I'm glad I didn't know

The way It all would end

The way It all would go

Our lives,Are better left to chance

I could have missed the pain,

But I'da had to miss the dance

It's my life,It's better left to chance

I could have missed the pain

But I'da had to miss,
The dance