RELIGION Art Posters      "Going Home" Art Posters

"When my sight grows dim, and the black descends on me, let me be able to say, dear Lord, that it's been interesting to be here---but I'm glad to be going home."

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Over one hour long.  As sung by the acappella Gospel Group, HIGHER SIGNIFICANCE, these grand old Christian Hymns are enhanced with new musical arrangements and the addition of new verses (© 2000 Daniel Basil Lyle).  Coming mostly from the 19th century, the powerful original words and music are updated into our present, 21st century lives.  

Though fresh words paint a more familiar picture, the message is exactly the same today as when these gut-wrenching, heart-felt songs were first penned:  our scant few decades on this planet are not the end, rather---in God---are just the beginning.

See below for SONGS and HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.

Traveling in a distant land, far from his home, the wayfaring stranger struggles up a steep mountain path, blinded by wind and snow, knowing he's not going to survive---but fall prey to exhaustion, sickness, and freezing cold.  Yet he also knows with a great confidence that the bitter defeat and horrible death will win for him a Cosmic Glory.

DeVenter wrote this song after struggling with how best to direct his creative talents in his life-work: finally giving everything to God, and deciding to devote his life to bringing others to the Christ as an Evangelist.  He said that after making this decision:  "God caused me to sing."

McAfee, a college chaplain, choir director, and minister wrote this song after two of his nieces tragically died from diphtheria.

Spafford wrote the words to this song following two great tragedies in his life:  1) his financial ruin due to the Chicago fire of 1871; and  2) the death of his four young daughters in a shipwreck while crossing the Atlantic with their mother.  Spafford himself died of malaria in 1888.  Bliss, shortly after writing the music to this song, died in a tragic train wreck.

Before Newton became a Christian, and wrote these words, he was a slave trader.

Palmer wrote these words after experiencing a vision of the Christ.

The words suggest the story of the "prodigal son" of the New Testament: who left home to waste away his talents and wealth on evil pleasures, then came to himself ill, destitute, without hope.  On turning back home, hoping just to beg a job as the lowest of servants, he was amazed to see his Father run out to meet him and with great love gently lead his weak, staggering, sick son, the wretched prodigal, back to where he belonged.

The African slaves, working the plantations of the New World, looked to God for deliverance from their suffering.  Today, many Christians, in like manner, look for meaning, purpose, significance, and belonging beyond this brief physical life.

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"Going Home" Art Posters