Away From Home, But On My Way Home

I am on a journey I have been for quite awhile I know not how much further I must go But I know the destination; it is to be enriched by every life I meet on the way and to enrich every life that grace mine on the way So I must stop, to smell every rose, to cheer every heart Though the way may be fraught with fog and tempest, I have no fear and I am not lost I still remember the way home and I am fond of home It is a place of eternal life It is a house of endless love, a house of peace, a house of joy In my home, there's always laughter, hearts never break, smiles never fade, spirit and flesh never frail fear is never around, friends never leave, loved ones never die, no sad farewells there I will go home, when my journey comes to its end To my father’s house will I go To the house of endless love, peace, and joy, will I return Into the waiting loving arms of my father; into the warm happy embrace of friends and loved ones, who had been on the journey and gone home before me, eagerly awaiting my return To my home, to my father’s house, of endless love, peace, and joy, will I return The day of my return, I know not, but when it comes, I will know, for my father will call me home, When he calls, I will hear I will answer his call I will run to my father I will be home (Dedicated to Merl Butler)