This summer Shiloh and I taught all 180 Rising Star Students a song written by our friend and the founder of the Promethean Spark dance methodology, Shaun Parry. It is entitled: I’m a Rising Star. During playtime one afternoon my friend Dani recorded one of the smartest and sweetest little girls at the school, Maryiembee singing the entire song. Maryiembee is out of tune and you can’t hear the melody because she is so flat, however, it is beautiful to me. Maryiembee is a Rising Star just like all 180 students at the Perry Matriculation School are. I feel blessed that I have had the opportunity to work here this summer. I have learned so much from the patients in the colonies, the children at the school, the many amazing volunteers that have come and gone and most importantly from my Heavenly Father. I have learned that we really all are God’s Children. I can not explain the great inequalities of life but I do know that each person has the ability to make a difference in this life if we but let our light shine, even in the darkest of night.
I’M A RISING STAR
Written by: Shaun Parry
I am free to be all I can be.
I love life and I love being me.
I can choose to let my light shine.
The world is waiting.
Whose turn is it? Mine!
I’m a rising, rising star.
I’m a rising, rising star.
Spread the word near and far.
I’m a rising (rising) star.
I will live like the sun sharing light.
I will shine in the darkest of night.
I will laugh and learn and through any strife,
Live a long, happy, healthy and loving life.
I’m a rising, rising star.
I’m a rising, rising star.
Spread the word near and far.
I’m a rising (rising) star.
