Where I Have Been (Tom Entrican 8/22/19)
I reminisce and see the map of all the different places
Where I have been, the many moves and chances I have taken
The map displays the darkest scenes where I’ll never be again
The things that haunt my yesterdays the past where I have been
The sorrows suffered the pain I’ve caused no longer in my sights
The prayers and tears forgiveness asked on many sleepless nights
Yet dreams and hopes and promises to wipe away back then
‘Cause still the sting of yesterday reminds of where I have been
Is there a friend who can forgive or an eraser big enough?
That stops the world from bringing back my past of awful stuff
It’s hard enough to travel on a road with so few friends
When all that they remember is the past where I have been
Does nothing that I do today redeem my darker ways
Or am I forever tethered to the things that people say
Must I still answer for the things God’s long ago forgiven
Is there a badge that I can wear “no longer where I have been”
I’ve wasted enough yesterdays doing things I know I shouldn’t
Why must I linger with those who say that change I surely couldn’t
I know my Lord has promised me a future up in heaven
And I know he has forgive me for the past where I have been