MOTHER'S MOSAICS
(Make Something Beautiful)
How many times when I was young did I say, “That’s not fair!”
Then climb into my mother’s arms looking for comfort there.
She’d say, “If life gives you lemons, learn to make lemonade.”
As the years passed and the changes came, this is what she’d say.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from something ugly and broken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Age took its toll on Daddy’s life and his strength and memories grew dim
Sometimes a plate would slip from his hand and break on the floor around him.
Mom picked up the coloured pieces. She saw the man he used to be
She fashioned flowers, rainbows, fanciful things of beauty for all to see.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from something ugly and broken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
I was broken by friends I trusted and loved, who tore my world apart.
Tattered memories lay on the ground with the fragments of my heart.
Time wrapped her long arms around me and whispered soft and strong
‘til I could pick up the pieces and the ugly words and weave them into this song.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from all the ugly words spoken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Make something beautiful.
©Linda Bandelier 2020
My mother Nellie Bandelier became a well regarded mosaic artist after she retired from teaching school. She was always artistic but she found her true medium in the colourful pieces of shattered cups, plates, mirrors and vases. From broken pieces she fashioned something new, imaginative and beautiful. She had business card printed saying "Make Something Beautiful From Something Broken." This song is my way of telling her story and saying, "Thank you, Mom for teaching me how to make something beautiful out of something broken."
(Make Something Beautiful)
How many times when I was young did I say, “That’s not fair!”
Then climb into my mother’s arms looking for comfort there.
She’d say, “If life gives you lemons, learn to make lemonade.”
As the years passed and the changes came, this is what she’d say.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from something ugly and broken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Age took its toll on Daddy’s life and his strength and memories grew dim
Sometimes a plate would slip from his hand and break on the floor around him.
Mom picked up the coloured pieces. She saw the man he used to be
She fashioned flowers, rainbows, fanciful things of beauty for all to see.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from something ugly and broken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
I was broken by friends I trusted and loved, who tore my world apart.
Tattered memories lay on the ground with the fragments of my heart.
Time wrapped her long arms around me and whispered soft and strong
‘til I could pick up the pieces and the ugly words and weave them into this song.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Rearrange and change them from all the ugly words spoken.
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Make something beautiful from something broken
Pick up the pieces. Make something beautiful.
Make something beautiful.
©Linda Bandelier 2020
My mother Nellie Bandelier became a well regarded mosaic artist after she retired from teaching school. She was always artistic but she found her true medium in the colourful pieces of shattered cups, plates, mirrors and vases. From broken pieces she fashioned something new, imaginative and beautiful. She had business card printed saying "Make Something Beautiful From Something Broken." This song is my way of telling her story and saying, "Thank you, Mom for teaching me how to make something beautiful out of something broken."
