We look out way in front <br />To try and see the end <br />We forget where we're walking <br />And surely where we've been <br /> <br />God says, Let me take you there <br />This Journey that you're on <br />Let me accompany you there <br />Let me love you as we walk <br /> <br />Yet we require to finish <br />To hurry and fulfill the task <br />Only to question the Lord <br />Where are you? we ask <br /> <br />In a small quiet voice <br />God says, I'm right here <br />You're so anxious to finish <br />You forgot that I was near <br /> <br />I give you Journeys <br />Not only to finish on time <br />But so I can walk with you <br />Thru the valley to the mountain climb <br /> <br />You're in such a hurry <br />To reach the other side <br />You miss the intimacy <br />The Journey brings as I guide <br /> <br />When we run on ahead <br />Leave God to be on our own <br />It saddens His broken heart <br />He yearns for that time alone <br /> <br />The beauty of the Journey <br />Is what it's all really for <br />The Journey itself <br />Brings us closer to the Lord <br /> <br />So walk each day <br />With Him by your side <br />Don't get in a hurry <br />And lose the Journey's site<br /><br />Lagaya Evans<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-journey-74/