I’d Like to Visit Heaven

I’d like to visit heaven
For just a day or two,
Lay down my heavy burdens
And rest a little, too.

Be done with pain and sorrow
And shed this bent toward sin,
Find perfect peace and freedom
And boundless love within.

And most of all see Jesus,
My precious Friend and Lord,
Whose Word is my commission,
His smile my heart’s reward.

That rest, it seems, would fit me
To better service here,
Renewed, revived, refocused
With mind and purpose clear.

Instead I must be patient,
Content to work and wait,
Without that glimpse I long for
Beyond the pearly gate.

My work must first be finished
And then the call will come
To enter heaven’s glory –
Forever safely home.

Christina Joy Hommes