{"id":9056,"date":"2010-05-21T05:32:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2015-01-19T07:01:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T12:01:25","slug":"if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Could See Where I Have Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a poem my mom faxed me a few weeks before she passed, Author Unknown<\/p>\n<p>If you could see where I have gone, the beauty of this place,<br \/>\nand how it feels to know you&#8217;re home, to see the Savior&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>To wake in peace and know no fear, just joy beyond compare,<br \/>\nwhile still on Earth you miss me yet, you wouldn&#8217;t want me there,<br \/>\nif you could see where I have gone.<\/p>\n<p>If you could see where I have gone, had made the trip with me,<br \/>\nyou&#8217;d know I didn&#8217;t go alone, the Savior came with me.<\/p>\n<p>When I awoke, He was by my side and reached down His hand<br \/>\nHe said \u201cHurry now, you&#8217;re going Home, to a grand and glorious land,<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t worry over those you love, for I&#8217;m not just with you,<br \/>\nand don&#8217;t you know with you at Home, they&#8217;ll long to be here, too?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you could see where I have gone and see what I&#8217;ve been shown.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d never know another fear or ever feel alone.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;d marvel at the care of God, His hand on every life.<br \/>\nAnd realize that He really cares and bears with us each strife,<br \/>\nand that He weeps when one is lost, His heart is filled with pain;<br \/>\nbut oh, the joy when one comes Home; a child is Home again.<\/p>\n<p>If you could see where I have gone, could stay awhile with me;<br \/>\ncould share the things that God has made to grace eternity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/the-flood-72-300x194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39275\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/the-flood-72-300x194-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"the-flood-72-300x194\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a>But no, you couldn&#8217;t ever leave, once Heaven&#8217;s joy you&#8217;ve known,<br \/>\nyou couldn&#8217;t bear to walk Earth&#8217;s paths, once Heaven was your Home.<\/p>\n<p>If you could see where I have gone, you&#8217;d know we&#8217;ll meet someday<br \/>\nAnd though I&#8217;m parted from you now, that I am just away.<\/p>\n<p>And now that I&#8217;m Home with Him, secure in every way,<br \/>\nI&#8217;m waiting here at Heaven&#8217;s door to greet you some sweet day.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.horizonsmagazine.com\/Andrea\/End_of_Death_As_We_Know_It.html\" target=\"_blank\">The End of Death As We Know It.\u00a0 What the crossing over<br \/>\nexperience is like as reported by those who have passed<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=If You Could See Where I Have Gone&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=If%20You%20Could%20See%20Where%20I%20Have%20Gone&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/if-you-could-see-where-i-have-gone\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a poem my mom faxed me a few weeks before she passed, Author Unknown If you could see where I have gone, the beauty of this place, and how it feels to know you&#8217;re home, to see the Savior&#8217;s face. To wake in peace and know no fear, just joy beyond compare, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39300,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/39300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}