There Is a Place

I recently finished the book Heaven Is for Real, the story of a 4 year-old boy's visit to heaven.  It was such an encouragement.  You can read more about it at heavenisforreal.net if you'd like.  I wrote this poem about heaven:

There Is a Place

this world is full of striving and struggle

but there is a place

the world heaves with heartache

but there is a place

this world is worn by fighting and war

but there is a place

this world is tossed and weary

harassed and helpless

but there is a place

in this world you will have trouble, He said

but take heart

I have overcome

in this world you will have tribulation

but look up

I give you joy

in this world you will be persecuted and hated

but look beyond

I go to prepare a place

in this world you may have heaviness

but gaze out at the night sky

look up at the sliver of the moon

look out across fields of wheat

and let your eyes stretch out across horizons

because somewhere, far beyond the sky

I am there

preparing for you a room in heaven

where sorrow will be no more

where no one will grow old

where never you’ll meet a stranger

and everything broken will be restored

no more sighing

pain

fear

torment

no more crying there

there will be no night

look up my friends, and take heart

there is a place

“These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”.”

John 16:33