Here: Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts has a new song called "Here" on their latest album. I really like RF because they always have a great ballad or two on their albums, this newest release is no different. Listening to the words in this song will obviously point to a love story, a relationship between two people in love. However, in riding home it was one of the songs that caught my ear and stirred up some thoughts on what home is for me. I have had a lot of emphasis recently on the newest, latest, brand new plan or thought or idea for my future. But this song reminded me of how I felt when I found my life here in Lexington, Virginia back in '03, and still so many of those thoughts remain. So while I ponder, plan, dream, and dissect what the Lord seeks and desires for me I am left thankful for Here. The right now. The zip code I call home. The place that is more then where I own real estate. It's a place on this earth that has captured my heart.

Through all the heartache, dead ends, and dreams lost along the way- the Lord brought me here, I met Him in a newer, refreshed, more profound way...so as much of a song saluting the past four years and the journey to when it started, its as much a love song about what Christ has done, where He has taken me--so I really connected with it.

Here

There's a place I've been lookin' for
That took me in and out of buildings
Behind windows, walls, and doors
And I thought I found it
Couple of times, even settled down
And I'd hang around just long enough
To find my way back out
I know now the place that I was trying to reach
Was you, right here in front of me

And I wouldn't change a thing
I'd walk right back through the rain
Back to every broken heart
On the day that it was breakin'
And I'd relive all the years
And be thankful for the tears
I've cried with every stumbled step
That let to you and got me here, right here

It's amazing what I let my heart go through
To get me where it got me
In this moment here with you
And it passed me by
God knows how many times
I was so caught in holding
What I never thought I'd find
I know now, there's a million road I had to take
To get me in your arms this way

In a love I never thought I'd get to get to--here
And if that's the road
God made me take to be with you...

And I've relive all the years
And be thankful for the tears
I've cried with every stumbled step
That let to you and got me here, right here...