beautiful heartbreak

You know sometimes when you hear a song and it just pierces your soul? When the combination of the words and music suddenly cuts right through your heart? And you realize things you haven't realized before. And it changes you.

That's what this song did for me. And I completely sob through this video.

Every. Single. Time.

[Especially at about 3 minutes in]

It is so emotional and inspirational.

|| I had it all mapped out in front of me | Knew just where I wanted to go | But life decided to change my plans | And I found a mountain in the middle of my road | I knew there was no way to move it | So I searched for a way around| Broken-hearted I started climbing | And at the top I found |

Every fear, every doubt, all the pain I went through | Was the price that I paid to see this view | Now that I'm here I would never trade | The grace that I feel and the faith that I find | Through the bittersweet tears and the sleepless nights | I used to pray He'd take it all away | But instead it became | A beautiful heartbreak |

I never dreamed my heart would make it | And I thought about turning around | But Heaven has shown me miracles | I never would have seen from the ground | Now I take the rain with the sunshine | 'Cause there's one thing that I know | He picks up the pieces | Along each broken road ||

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I hope that I view things in my life as 'beautiful heartbreaks' instead of being bitter about the things that seem so unfair. It's so easy to be depressed and sad about terrible things that happen to you and people that you love.

I definitely know that God picks up the pieces along the seemingly broken roads of our lives. And I am so grateful that He does and for my first-hand knowledge of it.