A Room With My Name On It

I sat beside her bed and held her hand through all of it

I watched her fight so hard — I watched her slowly submit

To the mercy of a God she'd served for seventy years of living

And in her final hours she whispered something I keep reliving

She said "Don't you cry too long — I'm going somewhere beautiful

I've heard about the place He's making — I've heard it's plentiful

I've got a room with my name on it — He told me long ago

And when the time is right, He's coming back — and I am ready to go"

There's a room with my name on it — in my Father's house

There's a room prepared and waiting — Jesus promised on His way out

I will come again and receive you — unto Myself He said

So that where I am — you may be also — there's a room ahead

Heaven is not a fairy tale — it's a promise from His own lips

In my Father's house there are many mansions — He built one that fits

There's a room with my name on it — I'm going home someday

He went to prepare a place for me — and He's coming back one day

This world can be so heavy — the grief comes in like a tide

The ones we love get taken and we don't know how to abide

In the kind of faith that holds on past the graveside and the song

But eternity is louder than the grave — and the grave is not the home

Because if this life was all we had — then the sorrow would win

But the story doesn't end with a casket or the shape that it's in

He said I go to prepare — active, present, working on the rooms

And one day every separation will be swallowed by the bloom

There's a room with my name on it — in my Father's house

There's a room prepared and waiting — Jesus promised on His way out

I will come again and receive you — unto Myself He said

So that where I am — you may be also — there's a room ahead

Heaven is not a fairy tale — it's a promise from His own lips

In my Father's house there are many mansions — He built one that fits

There's a room with my name on it — I'm going home someday

He went to prepare a place for me — and He's coming back one day

Eye has not seen — ear has not heard

What God has prepared for the ones who love Him — it's beyond every word

No more crying — no more dying — no more pain on that shore

No more empty chairs at Christmas — no more knocking on a door that won't open anymore

He's wiping every tear away with His own hand

He's making all things new — He has a plan

And the ones we said goodbye to — who knew His name

Are already in the room that He prepared — waiting for the day we came

Heaven is real — heaven is real — heaven is real

He said it — Jesus said it — I believe it — heaven is real

There's a room with my name on it — in my Father's house

There's a room prepared and waiting — He gave His word — I have no doubt

I will come again and receive you — He said it and it's true

So that where I am — you may be also — a room for me and you

Heaven is real — the promise is real — the preparation is real

In my Father's house — in my Father's house

He's coming back — He's comi