Welcome to Our World
Tears are falling,
hearts are breaking
How we need to hear
from God
You've been promised,
we've been waiting
Welcome Holy Child
Welcome Holy Child
Hope that You don't
mind our manger
How I wish we would
have known
But long-awaited Holy
Stranger
Make Yourself at home
Please make Yourself
at home
Bring Your peace into
our violence
Bid our hungry souls
be filled
Word now breaking
Heaven's silence
Welcome to our world
Welcome to our world
Fragile finger sent to
heal us
Tender brow prepared
for thorn
Tiny heart whose blood
will save us
Unto us is born
Unto us is born
So wrap our injured
flesh around You
Breathe our air and
walk our sod
Rob our sin and make
us holy
Perfect Son of God
Perfect Son of God
Welcome to our world
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This song by Chris Rice (listen to it HERE) has become one of my favourite contemporary Christmas songs. On his album notes, Rice describes his own song better than I ever could:
"This song is intentionally naive. 'Our' world? Breathe 'our' air? Walk 'our' sod? It is too much to take in that God would go to these lengths to display His love so beautifully. Such a fragile finger, with a tiny fingernail, that would be the means of God reaching out to us and restoring us as His sons and daughters."
"This song is intentionally naive. 'Our' world? Breathe 'our' air? Walk 'our' sod? It is too much to take in that God would go to these lengths to display His love so beautifully. Such a fragile finger, with a tiny fingernail, that would be the means of God reaching out to us and restoring us as His sons and daughters."
This is one of my favorites, too. I heard it for the first time during the Advent season of 2002, when I was hugely pregnant with my first child and had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder that November. The people at our then-church ignored my problems. Tears . . . broken hearts . . . injured flesh . . . hungry soul: I could identify with these things. So the song has always made me a little teary.
ReplyDeleteI can see why, Laura. I'm glad you found comfort in the song when there didn't seem to be any elsewhere. It's so hard when we're struggling and just want to feel seen and acknowledged by those around us. Thanks for sharing.
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