The Journey

I look backat the journey walkedand the storms braved;There on the muddy pathwhere my feet stumbledto find a way through the night,I see the footprints of the OneWho walked each step with me.

I look backat valleys and at mountaintops;sparkling rainbows breaking through rain,where good overcame timesof unrelenting pain,and I know I didn’t walk alone.I was held by the hand of the Father.

I look backat wind-tossed skiesas hurricanes and hail,blustering against my too-little strength,threatened me with hopelessness.But the blessings buoyed despiteSatan’s best thrown shot,and I know thatGod made all the difference.

I Kings 19: ⁷ And the angel of the Lord came again the second time, and touched him (Elijah after the battle with the false prophets), and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee. ⁸ And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.

Isaiah 42:16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Psalm 23 ⁴ Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

Isaiah 43: …..Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine. ² When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

³ For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: