1. Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. 2Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. 3Yet is the ending sure. 4No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. 5When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. 6Who could despair when hope like this is his? 7Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. 8Behind each one there is reality and there is God. 9Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? 10The end is sure and guaranteed by God. 11Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?
2. You are a stranger here. 2But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. 3Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. 4We have begun the journey. 5Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. 6And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.
3. Be not afraid. 2We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. 3We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. 4And now we try again. 5Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now. 6Look up and see His Word among the stars, where He has set your Name along with His. 7Look up and find your certain destiny the world would hide but God would have you see.
4. Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our gratitude to Him Who called to us and helped us hear His Call. 2And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him. 3Now we are sure we do not walk alone. 4For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. 5Now we know that we will never lose the way again. 6The song begins again which had been stopped only an instant, though it seems to be unsung forever. 7What is here begun will grow in life and strength and hope, until the world is still an instant and forgets all that the dream of sin had made of it.
5. Let us go out and meet the newborn world, knowing that Christ has been reborn in it, and that the holiness of this rebirth will last forever. 2We had lost our way but He has found it for us. 3Let us go and bid Him welcome Who returns to us to celebrate salvation and the end of all we thought we made. 4The morning star of this new day looks on a different world where God is welcomed and His Son with Him. 5We who complete Him offer thanks to Him, as He gives thanks to us. 6The Son is still, and in the quiet God has given him enters his home and is at peace at last.