Upon a Journey's End Joyce C. Lock Two roads to choose, but which is the way to go? What will help to show the path that is the best to know?   Why turn only along a pretty way, when other adventure we can find? If God made our world with such opposing force, where is the dividing line?   Does it matter where I journey, with my inquisitive feet? Will I have wisdom to decide whatever stimuli I meet?   What is the storm, the dark, the evil for? Such are the questions of life, behind every door.   The brightness of each day is that why we know of darkest night. Do we experience all the contrast, to know that there is light?   If we never felt the cold, why would a coat be worn? Should we feel the bitter wind, for the joy of being warm?   If we never felt the pangs of hunger, deep within our soul, Could we find the satisfaction a delicious meal can hold?   If we didn't endure pain and twisted grief within, Would we desire freedom from the curse of gripping sin?   Is this the reason for the sharp or blunt, soiled or clean, the nice or mean ~ To make choices, every day, from all that we have seen?   Imagine how that facing death presses upon us the desire to live And, if we all had everything, would there be of joy to give?   If we were never lonely, why search then for a friend? Where would be the pleasure, if the broken couldn't mend?   If life on earth were all the same, could we learn to choose, Or, as puppets on a string, would our thoughts be used?   This life we live can show us that contrasts make us seek After things that last forever; where life will be complete.   Now, we can find the reason why the darkness we will shun. Jesus broke it's curse, for us, in the victory that He won.   God has wisely planned the struggle, so we decide the more; If heaven, with eternal beauty, is all we're yearning for.

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