Carolyn Arends

Eternity In Our Hearts

Carolyn Arends


I have seen the burden God has laid on men. He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:10-11 

It's the feeling that somebody's watching 
When we're dreaming in the dark 
It's the whisper we hear in the silence 
Eternity in our hearts 

It's the sense we are meant for a journey 
But we don't know where to start 
It's a restlessness nothing can settle 
Eternity in our hearts 

It's the longing for a home 
We have never known 
A yearning and a promise 

It's the questions without any answers 
It's a puzzle missing parts 
It's the secret we've all but forgotten 
Eternity in our hearts 

It's a burden we all bear 
A blessing we all share 
An aching and the hope of glory 

And for mere flesh and bone to contain it 
We are almost torn apart 
But it's the one thing that completes us 
Eternity in our hearts 

And so it's believing that someday 
We will see things as they are 
And then we will know there was always 
Eternity in our hearts 

We are blessed with the burden of holding 
Eternity in our hearts