Onward

Although I’m alone and my journey is long,
there’s a place where my heart wants to be.
Everyone else went the other way,
but it isn't the way Home for me.

For I must press onward and never give up;
In life, that is just how things are.
And one day I know that I finally will reach
my Home, that for now seems so far.

There’s a bank up ahead in the shade of the trees,
where I hope to find quiet and rest.
Then onward I’ll go again and again
to the place that my heart loves the best.

Onward and forward with no time to lose;
I’m closer with each passing day.
Sometimes it’s tempting to turn back around,
but for me there is no other way.

"But I am so tiny. . .the world is so big,
and there’s dangers I don’t want to face."
Then Jesus says, “Go, for I am the Way
and I’ll give you the strength and the grace!”

So onward I go despite all my tears,
toward the place where my heart longs to be.
Tho’ many may travel the other way. . . .
it isn’t the way Home for me.

© Cheryl Taul
February 12, 2003

Midi "Ai Xiang Sui"
Composer © Emil Chau