this is my most recent whole song, which is sad, because i wrote it over a year ago. but it's also one of my favorites. my friend shannon was leaving india and wrote a blog that inspired me, and so, this song.

Reflections on the Journey OR Joy in the Journey
(17 November 2006)

G Am* C G
It took more than just a step of faith
To follow You to such a strange place
But now the strange has become home

A home like none I have ever known
With friends who became my family
It turned out not so different from what I left behind

But now it’s time for me to carry on
A new chapter has begun
It’s time to say goodbye to this part of my journey

Em C G Em* (4x)
And I’m torn, because I long to see what You have in store
But this broken land my heart will not release
So I’ll step out in faith like I did when I followed You here
Because this strange place has made a home in me

C G Am* Em C G Em*
There is joy in the journey
Though it breaks our hearts to take some steps
In faith we find
You’ve been leading us all along

C G Am* Em C
There is joy in the journey
For when we follow You
We find out who
We really are…

I’ve learned it takes more than a step of faith
To follow You to each new strange place
But somehow You make the strange become home

So I’ll rejoice in what the daybreak brings
As You teach me new songs to sing
Of Your grace, through the joy and the pain

And through the sweetest of joys and the hardest of blows
My heart can rest where Your Spirit goes
Because I know You’ll always be walking with me

Em C G Em* (2x)
They say time heals all wounds
But I pray that it leaves
A broken piece in me
To remember each place,
And who I became
Every step of this journey…

C G Am* Em C G Em*
There is joy in the journey
Though it breaks our hearts to take some steps
In faith we find
You’ve been leading us all along

C G Am* Em C
There is joy in the journey
For when we follow You
We find out who
We really are
When we follow You
We find out who
We really are…