God Bless the Broken Road That Led Me Straight to You

By Fawn Weaver on Friday, May 16, 2014

God bless the broken road

I sat out on a narrow way many years ago
Hoping I would find true love
along the broken road
But I got lost a time or two
Wiped my brow and kept pushing through
I couldn’t see how every sign
pointed straight to you

Those words piped into my earphones while on my morning walk earlier today.  

As the Rascal Flatts lead singer belted those lyrics, I thought about the broken road that made me the woman I am today.  That same broken road that led me to Keith and Keith to me.

Every long lost dream
led me to where you are
Others who broke my heart
they were like Northern stars
Pointing me on my way
into your loving arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

On May 9, 2003, that broken road illuminated and the man standing at the end was (and is) the kindest, most loving, gentle, respectful and humble man I’ve ever known.  

Wise beyond his years with an ability to love me with complete abandon.  As if he’d never experienced hurt before, he fell so deeply in love with me that many questioned if it happened too quickly.

He never questioned it though.

Less than 4 months after falling in love, as the sky dimmed on that beautiful Spring evening, he proposed.  And before year’s end, we became husband and wife.

This journey, my marriage, has shaped me more than any other earthly relationship.  It has strengthened me, challenged me, stretched me and made me grow in ways I never imagined.

His unending love has allowed me to feel safe.  His unwavering respect and honor for me, has allowed me to go after my wildest dreams.  His friendship is a daily reminder that I was never meant to walk this road of life alone.

Now I’m just rolling home
Into my lover’s arms
This much I know is true
That God blessed the broken road
That led me straight to you

Every day, when I come to the pages of the Happy Wives Club with the hope of inspiring and encouraging you, I often forget my husband also reads this site and sometimes -although not often as he’d get embarrassed- it’s just good to fill this page with an ode to him.

After all, beside every happy wife is a proud and loving husband.  And for me, Keith Weaver is that man.  And his love is the reason the Happy Wives Club exists.  So to Keith:  Muchas gracias.  Te amo mi amor.

YOUR TURN: Do you remember where you were the moment you fell in love with your husband?

Until Monday…make it a great weekend!

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Fawn Weaver is the USA Today® and New York Times® bestselling author of Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage, adopting the same name as the Club she founded in 2010. The Happy Wives Club community has grown to include more than 900,000 women in over 110 countries around the world. When she’s not blogging or working on her next project, she's happily doting over her husband of nearly eleven years, Keith.

 

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  • http://lifeinspiredthoughts.wordpress.com Amy

    Amazing! This same song was on my iPod four years ago when I met and fell in love with my now wonderful husband! I had just gotten a divorce after a 20 year abusive marriage and only thought this type of love was in my dreams, but dreams do come true and God blessed me beyond anything I ever imagined. I am now in a loving, healthy marriage and am still amazed each and every day how the broken road I walked led me straight to him.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Wow! Your comment just warmed my heart. To know you went from believing a love like that could only be in your dreams to experiencing it first hand – oh happy day! So happy you found the man that made you believe again, Amy.

  • Irene Canonizado Guadilla

    I love this song, it was a song that my husband my boyfriend back then posted on his wall…and he told me because that was what he felt at that moment….I liked the lyrics…

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Me too, Irene. Just love how a song can bring a smile to my face and immediately make me think of my husband. Sounds like that’s the case with you too.

  • Katherine Leppo

    On August 30th 2011.. we met in a parking lot so he could drive me to his church, it was a Wednesday. We were set up a few weeks before by his sister, who I worked with at the time. I did not and still now believe in love at first sight. However, Emory felt at that moment when I came around the car he knew I was the one he wanted to marry. It took me maybe a month to decide the same thing lol I felt we were together forever. He was so cute on our first date.. and still is. I was his first date ever.. and he was mine. We both had knots and butterflies in our tummies. He kept trying to make me laugh.. but i was so nervous I couldn’t talk. He is patient, kind, and so understanding. He is a good man who just wants to care for people. He can be a bit obnoxious lol but he is mine. We will be celebrating our first year together married tomorrow. We are so excited to continue on our marriage. This first year has only confirmed we had started in the right direction. I thank you for your book and this site. It is such a blessing to have this encouragement. All my love.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Love this, “He can be a bit obnoxious lol but he is mine.” Yes, you sound like you’re certainly headed in the right direction and I’m so happy my book and this site could play a tiny little role in that. I’m excited to see how much your love will just continue to grow over the years. Love is, indeed, a beautiful splendor. Happy 1st anniversary, Katherine!

  • Britta

    Beautiful!
    Your post brought tears to my eyes!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Thanks, Britta! Hope you are having a beautiful weekend.

  • Alise

    I remember the first time I met my husband to be (though I didn’t know it then!)- I was a freshman in high school, he was a junior, and someone shoved me into him in the lunch line. He was wearing a yellow shirt, and had long black curls and wonderful cologne. Fast forward three years and I was seventeen, a senior now about to graduate, and still single, and his mother decided that I would make the ideal daughter in law, and my mother was getting desperate to see me paired off- preferably to someone without blue hair and multiple piercings. They started trying to get us together at Christmas, then New Year’s, and by February, I (wary of my mama’s prior matchmaking schemes) finally agreed to at least meet him. He came over to my sister’s 11th birthday party to play guitar and sing. He was unemployed, living with his parents, and had a grand total of $20 to his name- and offered to use that to take me to a movie. I told him no, because already I had the sense that if I said yes, it would change the course of my life forever. We talked for hours- music was our common ground. He was a long haired, skateboarding, guitar playing alt.rocker who loved video games. I was a goth with a taste for punk rock and classic literature. As we talked, we realized our paths had crossed many times before. He lived three miles away from me. We were both on the Academic Team in school. The strangest thing was that my first cousin was his brother. It turned out that his dad’s ex-wife had left him for my uncle- and took their son with her. She’d taken both boys to my grandparents’ house for holidays before. His aunt was my Mom’s hairdresser- I’d been to her house frequently. Our grandfathers were good friends, and in fact, shared the same name- in honor of my grandfather. Later that afternoon, he offered to help put my cranky niece down for her nap. He must have read the same book to her fifty times, until she finally conked out. And as I sat there watching him read to her, I knew that this was the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with. The song playing as we shared our first kiss was “Moment” by Aiden.
    ” If love exists, I will fall.
    And I will wait for this moment
    when our lips collide
    and almost stop the Earth
    You’re in my arms tonight”

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Wow! I began to smile so big at the beginning of your comment because it was Keith’s mom who told him -before he even knew who I was- “I just met your wife.” And she wouldn’t leave either of us alone until we agreed to at least talk to each other over the phones. We became instant friends, then over the months quickly became best friends, and then we married 9 months later. Sometimes our mom-in-loves know what they’re talking about, don’t they? :)

  • Mrs. Z

    My husband and I started dating on April 5, 2002. We moved in together just 3 short months later. All was bliss for a while, then on September 13, 2002 we had our first big fight. He moved out and I went to my sister’s for the weekend. I cried the entire 3 hour drive to her house and barely pulled myself together while in the driveway. My brother in law answered the door and said “What’s wrong and where is Andy?” I burst into tears and between sobs I told him what happened. I spent the entire weekend on their couch with a multicolored teddy bear that he had gave me. I cried, I sobbed, and cried some more. I couldn’t eat or sleep. I was utterly miserable. I had had my heart broke before but nothing like this. My brother in law finally looks at me and says ” If you love him that much then go get him” I took his advice and left for home shortly after. I will never forget how bad my insides were shaking. I don’t know how long I stood there on his grandparents porch trying to work up the courage to knock. When I finally did his grandmother answered the door and she was not happy with me at all. I almost left but decided to make my case instead. Andy heard us at the door talking and came outside. When I saw him I managed to get some sort of sentence out about needing to talk to him, before I started bawling yet again. We went to a near by park to talk. We talked for a long time and by the end of the conversation we both decided that we were way better together than we ever were apart. We got married on Nov. 08,2002 and have been together ever since. Ironically I knew he was the ONE for me after I had thought I lost him. He is the best thing that has ever happened to me. And believe me this old girl won’t ever let him go again.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      I can’t imagine how hard it must have been to travel back along that broken road to his grandmother’s house that day. But given how you feel almost 12 years later, sounds like it was the best decision you ever made. That’s a beautiful love story.

  • Nikki

    One of my absolute favourite songs! It always reminds me of my husband. We met just over seven years ago and have been married for just over two. I vividly remember the moment I fell in love with him (on our first date he made sure he was always on the road side of the pavement as we walked from the theatre to the train station) but, now, seven years later, it is the little things that make me fall in love with him on a daily basis that are even more important than that first date.

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      I love that. Isn’t it beautiful how the smallest things can occupy the largest parts of our hearts?

  • soveryblessed

    I love hearing couple’s love stories. Am utterly convinced that marriage is one of God’s greatest blessings! :) Thanks Fawn, for creating a platform for happy wives and marriages!

    I met my husband 4 years ago and we’re married 2 1/2. What I most appreciate about him is that he never gave up on me, or our relationship. The beginning of our relationship wasn’t easy – I was ready to throw in the towel each time our relationship hit a hurdle. But he never gave up! He stayed with me. What’s more amazing is that each time I lost my temper in the most horrible way, he forgave me each time I apologised, and I know he never bears a grudge because he soon forgets about it and never brings it up again.

    We eventually married (and, praise be to God, I believe I’ve improved – seldom do I lose my temper now the way I did before). No words can describe how grateful I am for him – to love me into becoming a better person. I’m truly a very happy wife. My husband, Kangli – works every day, manages our finances wisely and cautiously, spends all his free time with me and calls me when we’re apart during work, he brings me along all his outings, and lives a completely open life with me – we give each other full and free access to all our online accounts. He has no friendship with a female that doesn’t involve me. We don’t go out with the opposite sex alone. How lucky, how blessed I am!!! He is the exceeding abundant above all I can ask or think!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Lucky and blessed you most certainly are!

  • Andrea W.

    HAPPY ANNIVERSARY? TO THE WEAVER LOVEBIRDS!!!!! I hope I’m around to see you both celebrate 50 yrs together!!!!!! N-joy HIS day!!!!

    • http://www.happywivesclub.com/ Fawn @ Happy Wives Club

      Now THAT will be a big party – oh yes it will!

  • Melissa Odonnell

    I met my husband last July 2, 2013. It was a blind date set up from an online dating site. I was 30 and he was 32. Both of us had been single a long time with failed marriages in our past. I knew he was the one I wanted to be with forever on that very first date. The emotions I felt hit me like a ton of bricks that day and he was everything I ever wanted in a man. We moved in together within 2 months and were married in October, 3 1/2 months after that first date. I love him so much for being such a great man, provider and friend. Our road is still a little broken, we suffered a devastating loss in February, and I haven’t been the easiest person to deal with since. I have a hard time not turning into that angry, bitter person but my husband makes it so easy not to. He’s always so happy and forgives me for everything my grief says and he’s never held it against me. I’m so thankful I have this man in my life who loves me so unconditionally! I have no doubt we’ll mend this road together and come out better because of it. I love you honey!!!