The Broken Road

I don't know if you know the song by Rascal Flats called, "God Blessed The Broken Road" or not, but yesterday when I was taking my evening walk on the beach, the song came on and it so spoke to me that I have to write about it.  Normally, I don't listen to music when I walk on the beach.  I like hearing the roar of the ocean, but for some reason I felt the need to hear the music.

The song played and I've heard it many times, but I don't think I ever really let the words resonate with me.  This time, they did.  It seemed to play my life through the lyrics and I haven't been able to get the song out of my head.  That always leads me to believe that God has a message in there for me.  Sometimes it takes me a while to figure out what I'm supposed to understand.

Here are the words to the song.  Now I just need to understand how this applies to my life.  I'm sure many of us can relate.

I set out on a narrow way many years ago

Hoping I would find true love along the broken road

But I got lost a time or two

Wiped my brow and kept pushing through

I couldn't see how every sign pointed straight to you

 

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

 

I think about the years I spent just passing through

I'd like to have the time I lost and give it back to you

But you just smile and take my hand

You've been there you understand

It's all part of a grander plan that is come true

 

Every long lost dream led me to where you are

Others who broke my heart they were like Northern stars

Pointing me on my way into your loving arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you

 

Now I'm just rolling home

Into my lover's arms

This much I know is true

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you.

So, I'm walking along the beach and I'm trying to figure out what I'm supposed to be taking from this

song, and it hits me.  My life has been a broken road.  I can see it when I look behind me.  I can see all the missing pieces and the twists and turns that didn't allow me to see what was ahead. I've been trying to travel this road for so long, never feeling like I was getting anywhere.  I've tried so hard to repair the road.  I tried to fill in the potholes.  I've tried to resurface it.  Many of the cracks I've tried to jump over.  I definitely tried to go around a lot of them, only to find the shoulder is so soft, I would fall.  I never gave up, though sometimes it was an appealing thought.  I tried so very hard to continue moving forward, but many times I turned around and tried to find another road., Now I think I understand what God was telling me.  He was telling me, Cyndi, "This is your road.  This is the road I have chosen for you.  You must travel it to get where I want you to go.  Instead

of trying to turn around, or find another road, or repair it or go around it, or ignore the cracks and think they will just go away, you need to stay on your road and build a bridge over the rough parts."  The bridge will get you further ahead on your road.  It will get you where you need to go.

I think that my road is still filled with potholes, and cracks, and missing pieces, and it always will be, but I think all of our roads are.  I think that I'm not going to look behind me because that's not the way I'm going.  I think that when I come to rough places in my road, that is where God is.  I think He's there watching me to see how I handle them.  I think that I'm supposed to build bridges over the rough places so I can continue traveling down my road, because just over one of those bridges is the life God has chosen just for me.  Wow!  I can't wait for that! With that in mind, making a U-turn on my road and going backwards is not in my plan.  Not ever. Going in reverse is never the way to go!  I can't wait to see what lies ahead!

Now what?  I'm off on another journey and I'm ready to build my next bridge when I need to! I hope it's not too soon though, because I love where my road is leading right now.  I hope you stay on your road too!  You can't get off!  You might miss the best part of your life!

God Blessed The Broken Road!