Stephenson Family Ties

CHRIST CHILDREN

Let us make you a child again

For Christmas.

Let us put you in the cradle

As we put Jesus in the manger

Pre-crucifixion and sweet

With just born eyes that meet

The wonder of star and smile.

For a little while

Let us make you children again.

Here there are no nails

In your innocence.

Here there is over you

A sky bursting bright

And under you the breast of a mother

Softer than hay.

You will not stay I know

And Jesus will have to go

To Golgotha

His little hands were born to bear a cross.

And you, my darling,

Came to the same sad world

Where trust is lost

At the hands of those who Know not what they do.

At the end of the story

The Christ will rise

And so will you.

But let us make you

Children again for Christmas

(The Christ children that you are)

Touched only by swaddling

And the light of a star.

-Carol Lynn Pearson