Joey swims in hot tub La Honda California Christmas 2011

Safely Home

I am home in Heaven, dear ones;
O so happy! and so bright!
There is perfect joy and beauty
in this everlasting light.

All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing passed
I am now at peace forever
safely home in heaven at last

Did you wonder that I so calmly
trod in the valley of the shade?
O! but the Lord's love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.

And They came Themselves to meet me.
In that way so hard to tread
And with The Lord's arm to lean on.
Could I have one doubt or dread.

Then you must not grieve do sorely,
for I love you dearly still
Try to look beyond the earth's shadows
Pray to trust our Father's will

There is work still waiting for you
so you must not idly stand
do it now, while life remaineth
You shall rest in the land of the One,
the All That Is.

When the work is all completed
he will gently call you Home
O, the rapture of that meeting
Oh, the joy to see you to come.

~Priests of the Sacred Heart