Michelle over at Because I love you is hosting In Other Words Tuesday this week and has chosen a section of lyrics from “To Get Me To You” written by Lila McCann.“And I don’t regret the rain, And the nights I felt the pain, And the tears I had to cry some of those times along the way. Every road I had to take, Every time my heart would break - It was just something that I had to get through To get me to you…”
I am, I’m afraid, a literary cliché.
I’m the much younger, naïve wife who packed up the kids in the middle of the night to escape a much older abusive husband and then, years later, waxes wistfully on the lessons of those days as she lives her happily-ever-after with Husband 2.0, otherwise known as Prince Charming.
“I wouldn’t be who I am today without those lessons,” she says.
“I am who I am now because of those hard times,” she exclaims.
“No regrets,” she reminds them both as they sail off into the orange sunset.
The funny thing is, it’s all true!
The darkness of those days allow me to be totally dazzled by the brightness of today. I know how blessed I am and I thank God for those blessings each and every day – sometimes hourly!
Because I know what a bad marriage feels like – literally – I cherish the wonders of a good marriage all the more.
And because I know what it feels like to be broken and on my knees, I can stand tall.
Would I do it all over again? Probably not, but in so many ways, I praise God every day that He did walk me through that minefield. I learned to trust Him more completely, to rely on Him more often and to believe to the very bottom of my heart that He has a plan for me, a plan I will never understand but will follow just the same.
For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"[a]made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. (2 Corinthians 4:6-10 NIV)
4 comments:
"The darkness of those days allow me to be totally dazzled by the brightness of today."
Love that quote!
This was really lovely, be blessed.
"The darkness of those days allow me to be totally dazzled by the brightness of today."
OKAY... I'm on board. I too appreciate ♥ this quote from your post.
Sometimes another woman's words are just so much your own heart that you want to reach out and hug her!
Here's a blog-world hug from me:
((((( * )))))
...probably one of the most "to-the-point" and poinant IOW posts today considering the lyrics on which we write.
Thank you for sharing your past and your bright and dazzling present-day!
Kindest Thoughts,
~esthermay
Oh Ava... I, too, have lived the pain and the redemption of your story. Abusive first husband, nearly killed by a later fiance before landing in this marriage with the love of a man that I could have only dreamed of before... God is a redeeming God. He redeems our tears and restores our lives.
Blessings and thanks for participating in IOW today.
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