Joy in the Journey

Hope

My mother left her home and traveled to another part of the country to be near me and filled with hope that someone would be able to find a way to restore her and remove her from a world of intense physical pain.  During the time she was here, she opened her heart to come to know God on a level that she never had before.  Over the months her health deteriorated rapidly, and by January she had lost her ability to do most things, and was in excruciating pain most of the time.  On February 17 she left this world of pain to be in the glorious Light of Creator.  Following her death I was filled with great sorrow that my mother's hope had not been fulfilled.  You see, I was defining a release from pain as being accomplished by a medical procedure.  But, tonight as I listened to Michael Card singing  Joy in the Journey, I suddenly realized that God had answered her prayer by lifting her out of this world of pain and by carrying her home --home to a place of pure love and light-- a place free from pain.  Indeed, her hope had been realized!  God always answers our prayers -- and often in ways that we do not expect. 

I share the words from the song:

JOY IN THE JOURNEY

There is a joy in the journey

There's a light we can love on the way

There is a wonder and wildness to life

And freedom for those who obey

And all those who seek it shall find it

A pardon for all who believe

Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind

To all who've been born in the Spirit

And who share incarnation with Him

Who belong to eternity stranded in time

And weary of struggling with sin

Forget not the hope that's before you

And never stop counting the cost

Remember the hopelessness when you were lost

There is a joy in the journey

There's a light we can love on the way

There is a wonder and wildness to life

And freedom for those who obey

And freedom for those who obey...