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Journey To God
By peace | December 15, 2006
Amazing Grace
Amazing grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind but now I see.
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;
‘Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
When we’ve been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise,
Than when we’d first begun.
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This is a song normally sang when people die, at the funeral. Probably God is waiting for us when we die. He is waiting to lead us on the next journey of our life in another foreign land which we have yet to know. It is very sad to see our love one gone.
The last time I heard this song was at my grandfather (my mother’s father)’s funeral. It was at Mount Vernon. It was a very sorrowful occasion. All the children were sad over the father’s death. I was not really sorrowful over his death, as I was close to him. However, the occasion was sorrowful and it makes me sad and tears went down my cheeks too, thinking of how he had suffered on his death bed and in those days where my sister and me had visited him at the hospital.
The first time I learned this song was when I was in Kindergarten. My kindergarten was at St. Fransis Church of Assisi, and it was a one year course. I got to sing this song there then when the sister taught the class how to sing the song. That was those days when my mother brought me to go to school and bring me back home also.
Childhood days were gone. I would like to go back to be a child again if possible. It is so good to be a child, parents doting on you. Though you get scolding and caning, it is still so memorable, its time you spent with your closest kins, the kind of real family love, real people who love you and care for you. You don’t have to be on your guards for untrustworthy people around you.
