The Road Home

Yesterday we had a four hour choir practice and we were working on one of our songs called The Road Home by Stephen Paulus. The song is a beautiful song, it's just very tedious, so most of us don't really care for it. However, our director made us throw out ideas about what the song meant to us (because he was trying to get us to put more emotion into it), and someone said how they thought it was about God calling us "home" and to follow Him. So Mr. Glass got us to hold hands and sing through the song with our eyes closed. I honestly can say that that was the first time I have ever felt a song so intently and actually understood the true meaning behind it.

The lyrics read as follows:

The Road Home

Tell me, where is the road
I can call my own,
That I left, that I lost
So long ago?
All these years I have wandered,
Oh when will I know
There’s a way, there’s a road
That will lead me home?

After wind, after rain,
When the dark is done,
As I wake from a dream
In the gold of day,
Through the air there’s a calling
From far away,
There’s a voice I can hear
That will lead me home.

Rise up, follow me,
Come away, is the call,
With the love in your heart
As the only song;
There is no such beauty
As where you belong;
Rise up, follow me,
I will lead you home.


I honestly wanted to cry after we were finished. I felt God speaking to me through these words and it was just the coolest thing.
The most intense part was I could feel Him telling me that to find my "road" was to follow Him and let Him lead me. I needed to simply rise up and follow Him.
My favorite part of the song is when we sing "There is no such beauty as where you belong". I think that simple sentence sums it all up. Once we find our place that God has chosen for us to be, there is nothing more beautiful, because His plan is the Ultimate Plan, and it's what creates the beauty and wonderfulness in our lives.
I cannot wait to find where God wants me to be, like I've stated in previous posts, because I know it will be so special and it will just end up being the most beautiful thing- even if it costs me lots of tears and heartache to get there.

God is just so awesome! (Especially how He works and shows us things, even through choir music!)