Lives Up There

My heart is cultivated in heaven

My heart lives up there

Beside the streams of your goodness

Like a tree of life

Established by your love

Sustained by your truth

Rooted in the ground of your word

My heart is cultivated in heaven

My heart lives up there

Seeking after the kingdom

Desiring to fulfill your will

Being transformed with each new morning

to become more like your marvelous image

My heart is cultivated in heaven

My heart lives up there

It meditates upon your promises

And holds fast to your word

Though it may linger

My soul anticipates quietly

For what I know of harvest

is that it’s worth my patience

Since he who promised is faithful

He keeps watch over his word

Until he brings it to completion.

My heart is cultivated in heaven

My heart lives up there

The closer it draws near your fountains

The more it tastes of your goodness

The more it abides in your presence

The more its satisfied in great abundance

My heart is cultivated in heaven

My heart lives up there!

Enlightened by your truth

Rejoicing in your presence

Living in eternity from now

It longs for a better homeland

A heavenly tabernacle made by the almighty

for those he loves.

Yeah my heart is cultivated in heaven

my heart lives up there,

Trapped by space and time

Under the law of gravity

in a sinful mortal body

Yet it watches carefully for your salvation,

Longs for the great reunion

And eagerly awaits to be called back home..

Mk