We can be broken because of many instances – someone can drop us, figuratively or literally. If they can’t crawl, they drag themselves with dirty fingernails and skinned knees all the way to the finish line. Really? That looks pretty impressive to me! I totally respect and admire those who just keep moving forward. You are so busy trying to glue yourself back together or find that broken piece you lost about 53 miles back – or find the ax head buried in the muddy river, that you don’t notice that you have still kept going at all costs – dried out glue, lost parts, buried treasures and all. The thing about being broken in any form is that you get used to it. In our brokenness and in our pain, there is a birthing of great purpose and great inspiration for those along side of us. I thought my legacy would be my brokenness. I thought my broken places were so full of slivers that each piece could never be recovered. I thought the things that happened to me when I was young had rearranged my life and changed my destiny, or altered it. I thought I was maybe the first person God couldn’t fix. He opened the front door to his home, facing his adversaries out there hidden in the bushes, and he yelled out HEY! HEY is the word we use to make sure whatever we say NEXT, is heard! And then NEXT- he proclaimed that he was not afraid anymore! It was as if he just realized it – all the lights came on and he instantly KNEW all fear was gone! He was still just a boy home alone still had enemies out there in the bushes BUT he changed on the inside! I had a major ‘aha!’ moment today where I felt like the boy in that movie when he realized he was NOT scared anymore. THIS one from Home Alone is one of MY favorites: “Hey! I’m not afraid anymore!” Having raised five sons, I have been bombarded by movie quotes for a lifetime, which thank you so much, I can not wipe from my memory. God will hear your cries just as He heard King David’s cries, just as He heard my cries, just as He hears all the cries of people in need of Him.Most of us have favorite movies that we can quote at the drop of a hat. If you find yourself in a dark place, one prayer is all it takes for you to be able to feel God’s Presence and Light. On this our 23rd wedding anniversary, I wanted dedicate this blog to Matthew and let him know how thankful I am that God blessed our broken roads that led us to each other. The words that particularly touched my heart were “This much I know is true/That God blessed the broken road/That led me straight to you”. God and God alone gets me down those broken roads.Īnd that gets me back to the song resonating with me. It takes strength, and character and patience, to navigate a broken road, and for me those qualities come from God. The thing is, you CAN get down broken roads, it’s just tough to do. The really cool thing about this song is that it was written the year my husband, Matthew and I met, and it tells our story! We both had been down some really broken roads in our lives on our way to each other. It was released by NGDB that same year, and by Hummon in 1995, but I never heard it until it was released by the Country group, Rascal Flatts in 2004. The song Bless the Broken Road was co-written by Bobby Boyd, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Jeff Hanna and Marcus Hummon in 1994. The words resonate because most of the songs are about everyday things of life. I’ve enjoyed country music since before it was cool because even as a small child the words to the songs resonated with me.
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