When We Get To That Home Over There

The day never comes in this earthly life
When we're free from its burdens and cares,
But someday, with Jesus, they all will be gone
When we get to that home over there.

When we get to that home over there,
We'll be free of all burdens and cares.
With Jesus we'll be in that land of the free
When we get to that home over there.

In this life here below we have trouble and trials;
We're oft burdened down with life's cares,
But when we see Jesus there'll be gladness and joy
When we get to that home over there.

When we get to that home over there,
We'll be free of all burdens and cares.
With Jesus we'll be in that land of the free
When we get to that home over there.

Here on earth we have problems, heartaches and sorrows —
We must take them to God's Throne in prayer;
But the day soon will come when they'll all be forgotten
When we get to that home over there.

When we get to that home over there,
We'll be free of all burdens and cares.
With Jesus we'll be in that land of the free
When we get to that home over there.

a. franklin staples
December 3, 1995

I have lived on this old earth for going on to sixty years and I don't believe there has ever been a day of my adult life when there hasn't been a concern about something, whether minor or major, either about my work, my home, my wife and family, my church, my health or my financial situation or something else that had some bearing on my life.  It seems we are always looking forward to a time when things will be somehow less stressful and our problesm will be diminished or disappear entirely.  That is never going to happen as long as we live on this earth.  Even though we trust in Him who has promised to bear all our burdens if we will but lay them on Him, those burdens are not going to disappear completely until we reach our heavenly abode.
Copyright © 1995 by A. Franklin Staples

April, 2017
I have now lived on this old planet for over 80 years and the foregoing statement is still true.