“Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.” —Robert Brault
This reminds me of the song Bless the Broken Road written by Marcus Hummon, Jeff Hannah, & Bobby Boyd sung by Rascal Flatts
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 coming true
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.
The quote and the song remind me of you. Now it’s easy to see that every time I stumbled and every time it didn’t “feel right” was because there was a grander plan. There was a road not taken each time. Each decision, each opportunity led me to you.
There is joy and amazement in that knowledge. I had to experience everything the way I experienced it in order to be ready to love you the way you deserve to be loved and to know how I deserve to be loved.
There is serendipity in our lives. It is alive and well and I like it.
You give me joy and beauty every single day.
I think because this feels so good and so right, sometimes it’s hard to accept. Sometimes it feels like I’m not enough, I’m not worthy, and you deserve so much more.
“To feel undeserving of love is to have met love’s only requirement.”
-Robert Brault
Then I remember that, “There are some constants in this world. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and you are poetry.” BW
Thank you for being my poetry, every single day.
>NaCl
