Easter Thoughts

Babies are sent down to us one by one

From our Father in Heaven and His Home they come

We love them and teach them and show them the way

To live out their lives and return Home some day

But there is only one Door through which they can go

To those Heavenly realms from this Earth down below

Some pass through the Door after just a few years

And teir families they leave with their hearts full of tears

But it is to our Savior’s sweet arms that they come

When they say their goodbyes and through that Door they run

For He is One that passed through The Door

And then back to Earth He entered once more

Our children, each one, through The Door they will go

Our parents, our siblings, and ourselves, this we know

But the door is not locked.  The key has been turned

Death’s grasp has been broken and its walls have been burned

Resurrection will come for the weak and the small

For the old and the young, for the short and the tall

It is on Easter Morning we think of the babes

Who’s names have been written on headstones of graves

He knows them.  He loves them.  He keeps them.  And then…

To their families He will return them again.

                         ~by Kathryn May Chapman