Where I Have Been

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