Tender is the Road Home

Psalm 139:7-12

New International Version (NIV)

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?

    Where can I flee from your presence?

8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;

    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

    if I settle on the far side of the sea,

10 even there your hand will guide me,

    your right hand will hold me fast.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me

    and the light become night around me,”

12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;

    the night will shine like the day,

    for darkness is as light to you.

1 Corinthians 15:19

New International Version (NIV)

19 If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.

Philippians 3:20

New International Version (NIV)

20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

John Denver was a favorite singer from my youth.   His was the first big concert I attended.  I went with friends to the big city of Seattle to see him.  I grieved when his life was cut short and wondered where he stood with God.  He was lost to us but never to God, who is a God of both mercy and justice.  He can be trusted with his eternity. I like this song "Tenderly Calling."  When I listen to it, I  am assured that God had made himself know to John, and what John did with that knowledge is between him and the One who loves him so.

Tenderly Calling - John Denver

The lyrics:

Home, come on home

Ye who are weary come home

Softly and tenderly calling

Home, come on home

Sometimes when Im feeling lonesome

And no one on earth seems to care

Im all by myself in the darkness

With no one and nothing to share

Just when it feels like its hopeless

And Ill never make it alone

I hear the voices of angels

Tenderly calling me home

Home, come on home

Ye who are weary come home

Softly and tenderly calling

Home, come on home

I try to keep it together

I never let on that Im scared

Still sometimes I fall to pieces

Scattered and lost everywhere

Just when it feels like theres no one

To mend all my broken down dreams

I hear a voice deep inside me

Tenderly calling to me

Home, come on home

Ye who are weary come home

Softly and tenderly calling

Home, come on home