"When He Comes Again"

As a child attending Primary at Church, I fell in love with the song "When He Comes Again." The lyrics are simple, but profound. They question what could (or will) happen when Jesus comes to the earth for a 2nd time. This song is very comforting and gives me hope and something to look forward to in the future, for I KNOW that Christ WILL come again. I just don't know when. However, I do hope that I will be around for that special event.

These are the lyrics:

I wonder, when he comes again,

Will herald angels sing?

Will earth be white with drifted snow,

Or will the world know spring?

I wonder if one star will shine 

Far brighter than the rest;

Will daylight stay the whole night through?

Will songbirds leave their nests?

I'm sure he'll call his little ones

Together 'round his knee,

Because he said in days gone by

"Suffer them to come to me"

I wonder, when he comes again,

Will I be ready there

To look upon his loving face

And join with him in prayer?

Each day I'll try to do his will

And let my light so shine

That others seeing me may seek

For greater light divine.

Then, when that blessed day is here,

He'll love me and he'll say,

"You've served me well, my little child;

Come unto my arms to stay."

© 1952 by Mirla Greenwood Thayne, Provo, Utah. Renewed 1980. 

Whenever I feel stressed or need a song to calm my troubled heart, I sing this song in my head. It was also my go-to song when I would sing to all five of my infant children in the middle of the night when they were having trouble falling asleep.

Four days ago, I had to get an MRI with contrast on my right hip. With the aid of an ultrasound or x-ray machine (not sure which), the radiologist injected the dye through my groin into my hip joint. He also injected a steroid to help ease the pain I have been experiencing for a few weeks. This injection was VERY painful! I had the same injection (minus the contrast) last February, but don't remember it being quite a painful as it was this time.  I couldn't walk or even lift my leg with out excruciating pain afterwards. They had to provide me with a wheelchair to get me from the treatment room to where I was to have the MRI. 

This was my first MRI, so I was quite nervous about it. Fortunately, as I lay there on the table for the 25-minute procedure, I had my calming "go-to-song" at my disposal. I repeatedly sang "I Wonder, When He Comes Again" in my head while the MRI machine noisily thumped and pounded away. 

I had a second MRI the next day on my back and once again used that song to calm myself and to help me endure that 45 min. procedure. It really did the job for me. I was so relaxed that I think I even dozed off a time or two.

At the beginning of the 2nd verse, it says "I wonder, when he comes again, will I be ready there..."  I ask myself that question all of the time. Am I prepared for the day when Christ will come in clouds of glory to once again rule and reign over the earth? I hope I am. I'm trying to do my best so that I can be worthy of that great blessing....and what a great blessing it will be!