Looking Heavenward

Looking Heavenward

When those we’ve loved dearly

 From this life have flown;

When our hearts bow with sorrow

 And we seem so alone;

 

Then turn thee to Jesus

 Who upholds with His hand,

’Til we cross Jordan’s river

 And enter the Land.

 

We love you so dearly,

 Your sorrows we share;

On all sides we’re troubled,

 But not in despair:

 

For the path of the just

 Is a shining, bright ray;

Shining more, ever more,

 ’Til that blest, perfect day.

 

When the silver cord loosens,

 And the golden bowl breaks;

When the music is halted

 God never forsakes.

The spirit to heaven

 Shall then take its flight

To the city foursquare

 Where cometh no night.

 

The streets are pure gold;

 And jasper--the wall;

Those gates made of pearl

 Shall not shut at all.

 

And God shall wipe tears

 Away from their eyes,

For all things are new,

 And nobody dies.

 

Yes, there we shall join them

 Who’ve gone on before--

Yea, happy that people

 Whose hope is the Lord.

 

 

 

Written in memory of Clarice Wright, April, 1987

Given to Lyle and Norma Jackson in

December, 1987, with alternate first verse,

a month before Lyle died:

 

When those we love dearly

 Find life is so brief;

When our hearts bow with sorrow

 And we bend low with grief;

Poem taken from Psalms 144:15; 146:5; Proverbs 4:18; Ecclesiastes 12:4,6,7;

II Corinthians 4:7-9; Hebrews 4:15, & Revelations 21:4,5,16,18,21,25