I’ve always loved this song (written by Gillian Welch), and I never hear it without remembering our older daughter singing along when she was about 4, “I am a NORTHERN, on God’s highway…”
Whenever I hear it, I think of the one day when there will be no more orphans, when we will live forever in eternal unity, no more tears, no more brokenness, no more death, disease, disaster…(Revelation 21:1-5)
I am an orphan on God’s highway
But I’ll share my travels if you go my way
I have no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl
I have had friendships pure and golden
But the ties of kinship I have not known them
I know no mother no father
No sister no brother
I am an orphan girl
But when He calls me I will be able
To meet my family at God’s table
I’ll meet my mother my father
My sister my brother
No more orphan girl
Blessed Savior make me willing
And walk beside me until I’m with them
Be my mother my father
My sister my brother
I am an orphan girl
