THE UPWARD WAY

I’m going on the upward way

On earth I cannot stay

The departure for the journey

Is nearing every day

God will take my breath

I’ll close my eyes in death

Then I shall fly away

On the upward way

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On the upward way

My flight can not delay

I’m ready for the journey any day

I don’t want to stay

When His voice will say

Come now with me on the upward way

I may not need to wear grave shrouds

For He could break the clouds

The departure for the journey

Is when He calls aloud

I shall rise above

Up to the one I love

For He shall call that day

Come the upward way

Chorus

On the upward way

My flight can not delay

I’m ready for the journey any day

I don’t want to stay

When His voice will say

Come now with me on the upward way

Raptured or death it matters not

My soul has been blood bought

Both ways will be an upward way

For me a Saviour sought

O my heart it sings

I hear the angel wings

Could this be now the day

For the upward way

Chorus

On the upward way

My flight can not delay

I’m ready for the journey any day

I don’t want to stay

When His voice will say

Come now with me on the upward way

Colin Moffett

MY GLEN

Take me back once again

To my beloved Irish glen

Where fading eyes may look

On verdant meadow and babbling brook

Let their beauty fill my eyes

Before breath in aching body dies

Then I never more shall see

The place that means so much to me

When in days of wondering childhood

Beside a sparkling stream I stood

Watched its waters running by

Listening to a curlew cry

Wildflowers in a meadow crept

Tossed leaves of trees, heads windswept

Hills standing still in distant view

In the haze of sun appearing blue

Most contentment I knew was when

I walked in my beloved glen

But no more I shall it roam

For God is gently calling me home

Some day now I shall depart

When death’s chill hand stills my heart

But I know a fairer land above

Outshines this glen that I love

When my body lies in this glen

My soul it shall see heaven then

Where more beauty shall be seen

Than my glen of emerald green

My road has reached its final bend

To a fairer land I shall ascend

But I cannot journey to the golden shore

Until my body rests in my glen once more

Colin Moffett

THE BROKEN HEART

My heart is broken just once more

Tears are falling like leaves off a tree

All the pain I feel I have known before
The aching inside is nothing new to me

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O the lonely heart the hurting heart

The heart that is filled with pain
Broken pieces Lord, gather them up
And help to mend it again

 Sweet and tender Lord is your love

That overflows in your heart for me
That you were so willing to come from above
To die for my heart and soul on that cruel tree 

 Chorus

O the lonely heart the hurting heart

The heart that is filled with pain
Broken pieces Lord, gather them up
And help to mend it again

 My heart belongs Lord just to you

You dwell in its joy,also its pain
Each time its broken Lord I know what you do
You pick up the pieces and mends it again

 Chorus

O the lonely heart the hurting heart

The heart that is filled with pain
Broken pieces Lord, gather them up
And help to mend it again

 Colin Moffett

SHINE

Let the sun shine at day

The moon shine at night

The myriad stars of heaven

Let them all shine bright

Let them shine on this world

Giving off their light

God set them in the heavens

To lighten night or day

How deep would be the darkness

If they should fade away

God sent His own Son

To be a spiritual light

But they crucified Him on a cross

When the day became as night

But He give His light to others

Who give their hearts to Him

He calls for us to shine

And not our lights to dim

So shine in the daytime

Shine at night as well

Shine the light of warning

To those who tramp to hell

Colin Moffett