“Can we skip to the good part?”

The girls and I had an amazing weekend in Colorado. Not only did we get to see a beautiful part of this amazing country, we were able to watch one of the girls’ favorite bands, AJR, performing at Red Rocks. We had an amazing weekend thrifting in the cutest little stores, ate amazing local food, floated down a river, hiked through Red Rocks, and ended the weekend with the high energy concert singing along to all our favorite songs. The girls introduced me to this band and I have come to love their lyrics. I previously blogged about their “100 bad days” song and this week, it is about “The Good Part”. One of the lines in the song is “Can we skip to the good part?” It’s how I feel multiple times throughout the day. I get it, I know it is God’s timing and not mine. I know I am supposed to trust God and I know that my path, my journey is ordained by God and not by me. But sometimes, I just want to skip to the good part. Don’t we all? As I sat there in these special moments this weekend, I realized I have been wanting to skip to the good part, but I was not seeing that I am living the good part right now. I don’t know about you, but when something is off, or not going right in my life, I have a tendency to focus on that one thing. This weekend was a reminder, thanks to these young artists, that I don’t need to skip to the good part, I am living the good part. A dear friend shared a verse that “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” (Psalms 34:18, NIV). That’s what He did this weekend. I may be crushed in spirit, but he reminded me that He is close and He is here to save me and is doing it every moment of every single day.