I was a music director / worship leader at the time I wrote this. It was in the early morning hours of Mother's Day and I couldn't sleep. I really wanted to find a song that I could sing for the mothers in the service. I felt God urging me to write what I had in my heart as a parent.

LORD, PLEASE GATHER MY CHILDREN HOME (words and music by Mike Jarrell) VERSE 1 SEEMS I CAN STILL HEAR THE CHILDREN AT PLAY HEAR THEIR VOICES AND LAUGHTER AT THE END OF THE DAY WE WOULD GATHER THEM IN ALL PROTECTED AND LOVED AND BREATHE THIS PRAYER TO THE FATHER ABOVE CHORUS WILL YOU BE THERE TO LIGHTEN THEIR LOAD WOULD YOU HELP THEM ALONG THE ROUGH ROAD BE A COMFORT IN THE SHADOWS WHEN THEY’RE ALL ALONE LORD PLEASE GATHER MY CHILDREN HOME VERSE 2 THE YEARS PASSED ON BY THOUGH TRY AS WE MIGHT AND THE CHILDREN STAYED OUT PAST THE SHADOWS OF NIGHT AS WE WAITED FOR SOUNDS TO KNOW THEY WERE SAFE STILL THIS PRAYER WENT TO HEAVEN ON FAITH [REPEAT CHORUS] VERSE 3 NOW THE CHILDREN HAVE GROWN THEY HAVE HOMES OF THEIR OWN BUT THOUGH THINGS HAVE CHANGED THE CHILD STILL REMAINS AS THEY HAVE JOYS SORROWS TRIUMPHS AND STRIFE WE STILL PRAY TO THE GIVER OF LIFE [REPEAT CHORUS] VERSE 4 ONE DAY WHEN GOD CALLS IT’S TIME TO COME IN PROTECTED AND LOVED NEVERMORE TO ROAM WE WILL KNOW IT WAS PRAYER THAT BROUGHT US TO HIM WHEN HE GATHERS HIS CHILDREN ALL HOME [REPEAT CHORUS] ©May 12, 2007 (Mother’s Day) by Mike Jarrell