Now, don't go and get your hopes up, Kristen.

My dad would always say that. I would tell him this HUGE idea that I had dreamed up, or told him a story of something that might just work out, and he would throw that at me.
Well, I think that as soon as you think up the idea, your hopes are up. But what's wrong with that? So, I'll be more upset in the end if it doesn't work out. What if we walked around life not getting our hopes up about anything? How boring would that be? We wouldn't be able to express or even have passion for anything.
This is something I believe in. Something I'm willing to fight for. Something that I'm not just gonna let slip away because there are challenges in the way. If my hopes weren't so high, I wouldn't want it so bad, and I would run the risk of letting it slip through my fingers. So yeah, I've gone and gotten my hopes; I'm okay with that.

Awaken what’s inside of me
Tune my heart to all You are in me
Even though You’re here God come
And may the vision of You
Be the death of me
And even though you’ve given everything
Jesus come