If You Could See Where I Have Gone

If you could see where I have gone, the beauty of this place And how it feels to know you’re Home, to see the Savior’s face To wake in peace and know no fear, just joy beyond compare. While still on earth you miss me yet You wouldn't want me there. If you could see where I have gone, had made the trip with me You’d know I didn’t go alone the Savior came with me. When I awoke He was by my side and reached down His hand Said, “Hurry Ben, you’re going Home to a grand and glorious land. Don’t worry over those you love for I’m not just with you And don’t you know with you at Home they’ll long to be here too?” If you could see where I have gone and see what I’ve been shown You’d never know another fear or ever feel alone. You’d marvel at the care of God, His hand on every life And realize He really cares and bears with us each strife. And that He weeps when one is lost, His heart is filled with pain But oh, the joy when one comes Home A child at home again. If you could see where I have gone, could stay a while with me Could share the things that God has made to grace eternity. But, no you couldn’t leave once Heaven’s joys you’d known. You couldn’t bear to walk earth’s paths once Heaven was your home. If you could see where I have gone, you’d know we’ll meet some day. And though I’m parted from you know, that I am just away. So thank you Mother, thank you Daddy, for living for the Lord For teaching me to love Him, secure in every way I’m waiting here at Heaven’s door to greet you some sweet day. This poem, given to Vicky and Lenny in May of 2004 is now submitted to Ben’s website and dedicated to them on Sunday, September 5, 2004. Ben would have been 25 years old today, just a quarter of a century. Oh that he could have lived 100 years. All my love, Aunt Deb