There is a Place

"Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also."

John 14:1-4

this world is full of striving and struggle

but there is a place

this world is heavy with heartache

but there is a place

this world is worn by fighting and war

but there is a place

this world… it is tossed and it is weary

harassed

helpless

but there is a compassion

and 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 peace

in this world you will be hated

and you will be persecuted

but look up and look beyond

I go to prepare a place

in this world you may be weary

weighed down and heavy

gaze out upon the night sky

at the sliver of the moon

there is hope

look across the fields of golden wheat

there is a harvest

yes, let your eyes stretch out across horizons

somewhere, beyond the sky

I am preparing a place

and right here, where you stand

I am there

I am here and I am there

preparing a place, a room in heaven

where sorrow will be no more

where no one will ever again grow old

where never you’ll meet a stranger

and everything broken will be restored

no more sighing

no more pain

no fear, no torment, no suffering

there will be no night there

look up, my friends, and take heart

there is a place