We Are People on a Journey

Song Reflections

The three songs – We Are People on a Journey, Have Mercy on Me, and In An Age of Twisted Values, highlight significant circumstances in my life these past 75 years.   

At the end of 1963, while waiting for my ‘O’ Level results, I followed a neighbour to his church. The hymns and carols, plus the meaningful sermons touched me so much that I cried to God to cleanse me from my sin, for my part in causing the suffering and death of the ‘holy infant, so tender and mild.’   

Then came A Levels and college and career, when I lost myself in an age of twisted values by ‘following my heart.’  Survival and ‘success’ came first; family and God were a distant second and third.  

Busy from working for multinational companies, and then starting my own business, I was an absentee father, not the Christian role model that I should be.   

But thank God, He did not leave me to my doom. My dear wife and her Christian friends persisted in praying for me.  

When my initially successful business came crashing down, God sent his servants (including pastors) to lift me out of my suicidal depression, and back to my Good Shepherd, to live a life reborn.  

Now I am among His people on a journey, following our Master, and not following my heart, for now I see the truth in Jeremiah 17:9 – “The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” (NLT) – J.K.