How quietly the morning dawns!
Gold streams across the sky,
And in the stable Mary sleeps, her
baby sleeps nearby.
And Joseph drowses by the door to
guard his family dear,
While echoes of angelic song
remind them Love’s drawn near.
How quickly did the Light arrive
in the middle of the night,
How bright and beautiful the Babe
who’s come to give us sight.
We wandered in the cold and dark,
all alone and so afraid,
But now we marvel at this child;
he’s just as God had said.
The promise spoke by prophets bold
in days so long ago,
Kept alive for all these years is
now fulfilled in Mary’s son.
We’ve wept and waited, watched and
prayed, to see his strength and might;
Now in the still and wakening day,
we’re given brand new sight.
Our understanding dawns like gold,
like sun across a cloud,
To the weak and poor he humbly
came and not unto the proud.
This tiny baby wrapped in rags and
slumbering in the morn
Has changed us all and all the
world. Rejoice that He is born!
~EMP, Advent
2013
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