Saturday, October 31, 2009

With You I'm Home

This is the view from what was my Grandpa’s backyard (Waverly, NY in 1995)




No matter what my feelings say, no matter where I live or where I stay

No matter how far I roam from you, With you I’m home.

With you I’m home, with you I’m home—I am not ever alone

‘Cuz with you I’m home.

Far from you I’ve wandered so many time before—

Your wayward child comes running—you’ve got an open door.

There’s no other place I truly fit here on this cruel earth

‘Cuz only you love me unconditionally—only you gave me my worth.

Could it be that all my searching was part of your great plan?

I do not know, but I praise you—out of the rocks, you’ve laid a road of sand.

Loved ones may be far away or even right next door—

This feeling of not belonging has come so many times before.

While you’ve lavished dear friends and family down on me,

I sometimes feel all alone, ‘cuz I forget—only you hold my identity.

May I trust you more than my feelings, thoughts and cares

May I find the security of your presence when it seems that you’re not near.

No matter what my feelings say, no matter where I live or where I stay

No matter how far I roam from you, With you I’m home.

With you I’m home, with you I’m home—I am not ever alone

‘Cuz with you I’m home.


Throughout my life, I have lived many places, worn many faces, and been different from most of my peers. Satan loves to discourage me by telling me that I don’t fit in with anyone or anywhere. Yet that is one of His crafty lies that I so often believe; the truth is that my Savior is my secure shelter and my source of being and life. I praise Him that no matter how we feel or what we think or what others say, there are truly no “misfits” with our God, because each of us is at home with our Lord as long as we’re laid at the foot of His cross!


“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going.” John 14:1-4


“If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” John 14:23


“What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.” Matt. 18:12-14

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