faith unfaded

You know those songs that hit you so deep, you’re certain they were meant just for you?

That’s what Something Better was for me. Never mind that it was released three years before I heard it, time stood still the moment I heard the opening lyrics. 

🎶 It’s been a couple years, I’ve been on my own

Now I know that I’m not alone

You’ve given me a reason to carry on, to carry on, yeah, yeah

Yeah, everything is different nowadays

I lost a few ones along the way

I had to learn to trust it’ll be okay, it’ll be okay 🎶

I was coming down Horseshoe Drive—headed back home after a fun afternoon—and I realized it had been exactly two years since I’d left Mississippi. Two years of uncertainty, heartache, and losing loved ones. Two years of picking myself up, rebuilding my life, and learning to fully trust God. 

Two years… and I could see that He’d taken all my pain and turned it into something better. 

🎶 Every moment I was sure I wouldn’t make it through

I was safe because of you

I don’t know how, but you take all my pain

And you turn it into something better 🎶

I didn’t know it at the time, but the Lord would take the worst time of my life and use it to raise me up and set me on the course that He’d created me for. 

I pulled over at a gas station and saved the song to my playlist immediately. I knew the words were a confirmation of Isaiah 45:2 and Isaiah 61:3. And I knew I’d be replaying the song often. 

I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight. Isaiah 45:2

…to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair… Isaiah 61:3

Something Better (Blanca, 2022)

You said you’d never leave and you really don’t

A kind of love that I’ve never known

You took over my heart and you made a home

Yeah, you made a home

And all the broken pieces within 

You put them together again 

And with you, a new story begins…

This song is an incredible reminder of hope in darkness, and gratitude in light.