Backstory:

One of my favorite podcasts is the Magnify podcast. I listened to the episode with guest Camille Fronk Olsen. She talked about how her life didn’t turn out the way she thought it would. She had so many detours in her life that she wasn’t expecting. She said, “Sometimes our bridges to nowhere in God’s hands can be magnificent.” This has really stayed with me. So I googled, “bridges to nowhere”. I found an interesting story from 1998. Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras, destroying many bridges and roads. The Choluteca Bridge however, remained intact. The powerful floods and landslides caused by the hurricane completely altered the course of that river. The river’s new path ran beside the bridge instead of under it, rendering the structure over dry ground and it was literally a bridge to nowhere. This story means to me that a bridge to nowhere placed in God’s hands can be used for good by transforming a seemingly useless, misguided, or broken part of one’s life into a meaningful path.

Our Bridge to Somewhere

We have so many curve balls thrown at us

That we might want to make a big fuss.

Our lives don’t turn out the way we thought they would

But sometimes the path we have traveled can turn out to be really good.

Change most of the time is hard,

And if it happens too much can leave our hearts feeling permanently scarred.

But if we put our lives into the hands of our Loving Father above,

He will guide us so we can feel as free as a flying dove.

He will help us climb the mountains in our life

Even though we probably won’t be free from all strife.

He will transform in our life our bridge to nowhere

Into something that has purpose and is filled with His Loving Care.

We just need to surrender our lives over to Him,

And with Him by our side, our trials won’t seem so grim.

That takes a lot of trust on our part,

And we need to do it with all of our heart.

If we let Him, He will direct our path with purpose

And He will send us so many blessings, for He is always very generous.

We just need to trust in our Loving God,

And He will lead us gently with His guiding rod.

The Takeaway: We might feel like our lives didn’t turn out the way we thought they would when we were younger. But that doesn’t mean that we haven’t been blessed and guided by our Loving Heavenly Father. If we surrender our will to Him and completely trust in Him and in His plan for our lives, He will turn our bridges to nowhere into something meaningful and purposeful. He will gently lead us by the hand and bless us more than we can comprehend.