"Anywhere with Jesus"

My mind is weird. It wanders. A lot. I will be talking and in mid-sentence and then hear someone else's conversation and then I will remember something I was going to tell someone and then it's a maze to get back to I was from there. I don't really know if that has anything to do with what I am talking about, but that being said, I sometimes come to realizations about life in the strangest places. The other day, I had one of these in the bathroom of a German airplane while flying over the Atlantic Ocean.

There's a song that my mom and dad used to sing to me at night when I was little and they were putting me to sleep. I remember the words and tune verbatim, but I never really thought about the lyrics the way I have today. The worls of this song came to me and I saw them in a way I never have before.

Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.
Anywhere he leads me in this world below.
Anywhere without Him dearest joys would fade.
Anywhere with Jesus I am not afraid.
Anywhere, Anywhere, fear I cannot know.
Anywhere with Jesus I can safely go.

As I hummed this tune in my mind and actually LISTENED to the words, I began to come to the realization of the truth in them. I am leaving home for four months without my usual support system: No family to go home to whenever I want; No friends to hug me whenever they want; No familiar town to roam with familiar faces to see. Everything will be out of my comfort zone.

But this I know:

Anywhere with Jesus I can go to sleep.
When the darkening shadows 'round about me creep
Knowing I shall waken, ever more to roam.
Anywhere with Jesus will be home, sweet home.

When everything in my life is going to be different and changing, I know that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is always the one I can find rest in and find my home.

Thank you, Mom and Dad, for singing that song to me over and over many years ago. I can never repay you for showing me Jesus and teaching me of His everlasting presence and dependency. I love you both and will miss y'all every day.

Love,
Callie

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