Bless the Broken Road

So I'm laying in bed reading and just waiting to go to sleep; my iPod is on shuffle, and Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts comes on. 

Yes I like country music. 

I really love this song. The lyrics mean so much. While many people look at this song and think of their boyfriend or girlfriend out their spouse I just think of important people in my life. 

My childhood wasn't the best. I don't believe in love between spouses but I do believe in the love of a family or a friendship. And yes there is a difference. And while my childhood hasn't been the best I'm not blaming anyone for it. 

Well not anyone that matters. 

So listening to this dog I think of all the people in my childhood who put me down, hurt me, or just didn't believe in me and I think about the people in my life now who support me, an accept me for who I am. 

I'm not the easiest person to like. I have walls ten feet tall made of steel an reinforced. So just knowing that there are people willing to try is amazing and those who have gotten behind the wall is even better. 

Don't ask me why in being all sentimental and emotional. The story I'm reading is... I'm blaming it. But it's deep, man it's deep. 

Kay I'm going to sleep. 

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

(Yes He did)

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 coming 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

Yeah.

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.

That God blessed the broken road

That led me straight to you.