Reaching Lyrics - Carolyn Arends

There's a time I can recall 

Four years old and three feet tall 

Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar 

And both were out of reach 

And later on in my high school 

It seemed to me a little cruel 

How the right words to say always seemed to stay 

Just out of reach 

Well, I should not have thought it strange 

That growing causes growing pains 

'Cause the more we learn the more we know 

We don't know anything 

But still it seems a tragic fate 

Living with this quiet ache 

The constant strain for what remains 

Just out of reach 

We are reaching for the future 

We are reaching for the past 

And no matter what we have we reach for more 

We are desperate to discover 

What is just beyond our grasp 

But maybe that's what Heaven is for 

There are times I can't forget 

Dressed up in my Sunday best 

Trying not to squirm and to maybe learn 

A bit of what the preacher preached 

And later lying in the dark 

I felt a stirring in my heart 

And though I longed to see what could not be seen 

I still believed 

I guess, I shouldn't think it odd 

Until we see the face of God 

The yearning deep within us tells us 

There's more to come 

So when we taste of the divine 

It leaves us hungry every time 

For one more taste of what awaits 

When Heaven's Gates are reached 

We are reaching for the future 

We are reaching for the past 

And no matter what we have, we reach for more 

We are desperate to discover 

What is just beyond our grasp 

But maybe that's what Heaven is for 

I believe that's what Heaven is for 

There's a time I can recall 

Four years old and three feet tall 

Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar 

And both were out of reach