Healthy Living - Daily Meditation: Hang On

We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these Daily Meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life. Today's meditation is a recording by the musical group Pink Martini that tells the simple, yet moving story of a little tomato that is struggling to survive a dark, stormy night. He learns a lesson that may be good for us to remember -- "Just hang on, hang on to the vine. Stay on, soon you'll be divine." Hang On Little Tomato The sun has left and forgotten me It's dark, I cannot see Why does this rain pour down I'm gonna drown In a sea Of deep confusion Somebody told me, I don't know who Whenever you are sad and blue And you're feelin' all alone and left behind Just take a look inside you and you'll find You gotta hold on, hold on through the night Hang on, things will be all right Even when it's dark And not a bit of spark Sing-song sunshine from above Spreading rays of sunny love Just hang on, hang on to the vine Stay on, soon you'll be divine If you start to cry, look up to the sky Something's coming up ahead To turn your tears to dew instead And so I hold on to his advice When change is hard and not so nice If you listen to your heart the whole night through Your sunny someday will come one day soon to you.