Coming Home ...

Father, dear Father I want to come home   

I've been away far too long   

I've tried so hard to make it alone   

Yet I know it's with You I belong

Your grace and Your love overwhelm me   

As you run with arms open wide  

I have wandered so far, but now I am home

And I'll never again leave your side

Father, I come home to You 

I give You my tears and my pain

Forgiven, restored . . I stand in Your grace

With power to serve You again

I've struggled so hard in the flesh, Lord

Sinking each day in the mire

I rest in Your arms and hear You say:

"Child, it's your heart I desire."

I'm weary and tired of striving

Restore me to my first love

For it's not by might,  nor by power

It's  by Your Spirit above!

Father, I come home to You 

I give You my tears and my pain

Forgiven, restored . . I stand in Your grace

With power to serve You again

© 1996 Robert Griffith