The Gate Unlocked

We look ahead and can’t believe our eyes:
A gate we see we thought we left behind
And see a key looms high upon a rise
That unlocks gate and there a tree we find.
It grows from tomb with portal opened wide
Inside the gate where breeze of dawn so sweet
Invites us with our broken hearts inside
Where One who’s past death’s door will each one greet.
He came among us born of Virgin Maid
To bring us key to open only way
To Garden where we wished that we had stayed–
Lament the fact that we in our sin strayed.
We’re welcomed home to place we’ve never been
But know we’re home as we are saved from sin.