Sung from the perspective of an aged parent(my perspective, but could be any age parent), close to death, saying goodbye to her child/children. This is a person of faith it seems as they seem to believe in an afterlife, indicating they wont be alone, they will be "waiting with all who have gone before". This believe in afterlife seems to be Christian, as use of "Jordan" seems to indicate.
Sung from the perspective of an aged parent(my perspective, but could be any age parent), close to death, saying goodbye to her child/children. This is a person of faith it seems as they seem to believe in an afterlife, indicating they wont be alone, they will be "waiting with all who have gone before". This believe in afterlife seems to be Christian, as use of "Jordan" seems to indicate.