Songfacts®:

• In this song, Nichole Nordeman reflects on the tough times she endured and sees every moment as essential to her life's journey. "Like most of us, I've travelled some roads I'd rather erase," she said in a Songfacts interview. "But I wanted to write this song (and album) in light of the truth that all of those miles were important. They were a gift - pointing and prodding me on to where I am now - to the story God is still telling with my life. Erasing or diminishing the darker roads doesn't tell a true story, and can often times makes us feel alone and isolated when no one is saying the hard truth about the miles behind them. Not a single mile was wasted."
• This is the title track to Nordeman's first full-length album since Brave in 2005. After that album, she took 10 years off, putting a lot of miles on her odometer. Her first release after her return was the EP The Unmaking in 2015, which contained the viral hit "Slow Down."