Let Love Lead You Home

Every day the chaplain comes To sit beside the dying She listens when there are no words And helps with the goodbye-ing And when they ask her how to die She says she’s never tried it But then she takes them by the hand And whispers in the quiet When it’s time for you to leave Gather all the love you’ve known The love you gave, the love received And let it lead you home Oh, let love lead you home Sometimes there are photographs They look at them together A wedding dress, a bassinet A tree every December And if the family can come They tell so many stories And with their laughter and their tears, They make that room so holy When it’s time for you to leave Gather all the love you’ve known The love you gave, the love received And let it lead you home Oh, let love lead you home Well sometimes all the memories Have faded past retrieving And sometimes there’s no loved ones left To come and do the grieving But the chaplain knows their song plays on Though only God can hear it And so she takes them by the hand And whispers for the Spirit When it’s time for you to leave Gather all the love you’ve known The love you gave, the love received And let it lead you home Oh, let love lead you home