Life is a Highway

One of my favorite songs is "Life is a Highway" by Rascal Flatts. The song always makes me smile and honestly, it helps me put my life in perspective.

"Life's like a road that you travel on

When there's one day here and the next day gone

Sometimes you bend, sometimes you stand

Sometimes you turn your back to the wind

There's a world outside ev'ry darkened door

Where blues won't haunt you anymore...

Life is a highway

I wanna ride it all night long

If you're going my way

I wanna drive it all night long"

Life really is a highway. For me, especially in my spiritual life, much of my life trip has been spent speeding, all the while encountering road construction and detours and definitely taking the scenic exits. Now I would like to tell you that those scenic exits were awe inspiring. But for the most part they were just like the scenic exits on I-35 south of the Arbuckle mountains - - just looking out over a bunch of nothing. Fortunately for me, and for you, even when we are stuck in road construction, taking self-imposed detours and just staring at nothing on our scenic exit, God is still with us, through all of our misdirections; and He is ready and able to get us back on the highway and to show us the way. All we have to do is ask, then listen for his guidance and enjoy his presence along the way.

"Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,

for I have put my trust in you.

Show me the way I should go,

for to you I lift up my soul."

Psalm 143:8 NIV

My Prayer:

Lord, please help me to continue on your highway of life. Help me to always remember that you are with me and that there is a world, your world, outside of every dark door where sadness and trouble won't haunt me, because you are there. Show me the highway you would have me travel and help me recogonize when I need to take a scenic exit to rest in your beauty, though it may seem like nothingness at the time. Thank you for always being with me regardless of the route I take. Amen.