Maybe It Mattered

“Maybe It Mattered” came out of looking backward at years that did not always seem connected while I was living them.

There were restless years. Wild years. Years spent trying to matter, trying different rooms, careers, ministries, ideas and versions of myself. There were seasons that felt productive and seasons that felt wasted.

The question behind the song is simple: what if some of the things we thought were wasted were still forming us?

It doesn’t pretend every mistake was necessary or every road was right. It asks whether grace can take even the wandering parts of a life and make something useful from them.

Maybe the years mattered.

Maybe the people mattered.

Maybe even the scars have something left to say.