Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Thank God for All I've Missed


Those words are in one of my new favorite songs by Darius Rucker (Hootie and the Blowfish):  "This".   Check out the video



Oh Yes...Thank God for all I missed 
'Cause it led me here to this...blogging, mom, memaw, wife...
Oh do those lyrics ring true.  I thank God for his hand on my life.  I thank God for a praying mama.  I thank God for the times I got grounded when I was a kid.  I thank God for the boys who turned me down in high school because I wasn't "preppy" or rich.  I thank God for the prom I missed and the colleges that I turned down.

I especially thank God for the motorcycle ride I missed one night when I was 19.  I had been arguing  with my boyfriend ferociously all afternoon.  It was one of those arguments.  



Instead of staying with him, I took off with my girl friend, Rhoda, and went to "The Attic" in Greenville to party.  And boy did I party that night.  But when I arrived back home about 3 am, and in no state to be walking (if you know what I mean), I found mama at the front door with her jacket on and pocketbook.  She met me at the car and told me to go to his mom's house.  He had died that night in an accident.  A friend we knew hit him with his car.  He never saw Kenneth on his Harley.  

I thank God for missing that ride.  Had I been on that bike, my brother-in-law would have been picking me up off the ground.  And mama would probably have been burying me 3 days later.  But I missed it.   And that's when my life turned around.  I wasn't going down the right path.  Mama knew it.  God knew it.  And I finally knew it.

Yes, I sure do thank God for all I've missed.  I would have never met my husband, been a mom, and never a memaw. OMG..I can't imagine not being a memaw.  I've made mistakes as a mom.  I've made mistakes as a wife.  But I thank God for every moment of it.  I thank God for every moment that I have now.

Here are the lyrics.  I bet they ring true for you too!

Got a baby girl sleeping in my bedroom  
And her mama laughing in my arms  
There's the sound of rain on the rooftop 
 And the game's about to start
 
I don't really know how I got here  
But I'm sure glad that I did  
And it's crazy to think that one little thing  
Could've changed all of it
 
Maybe it didn't turn out like I planned 
 Maybe that's why I'm such, such a lucky man
 
For every stoplight I didn't make  
Every chance I did or I didn't take  
All the nights I went too far  
All the girls that broke my heart
 
All the doors that I had to close 
All the things I knew but I didn't know  
Thank God for all I missed 
'Cause it led me here to this
 
Like the girl that I loved in high school  
Who said she could do better  
Or that college I wanted to go to 
 'Til I got that letter
 
All the fights and the tears and the heartache 
 I thought I'd never get through  
And the moment I almost gave up  
All lead me here to you
 
I didn't understand it way back when  
But sitting here right now, it all makes perfect sense
 
For every stoplight I didn't make
  Every chance I did or I didn't take 
 All the nights I went too far  
All the girls that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close  
All the things I knew but I didn't know 
 Thank God for all I missed  
'Cause it led me here to this
 
How I cried when my mama passed away  
But now I've got an angel looking out for me today  
So nothing's a mistake
 
For every stoplight I didn't make  
Every chance I did or I didn't take  
All the nights I went too far  
All the girls that broke my heart
All the doors that I had to close  
Everything I knew but I didn't know 
Thank God for all I missed  
'Cause it led me here to this  
It led me here to this

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