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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