Listen to The True Christmas Story performed by James Pickin:
Emmanuel
A moment
We stop
Run
Pain
And peace
Collide
Emmanuel
The Christmas Story
We’ve heard it before
Guiding stars
Muddy stable floors
Emmanuel
If you could capture that moment
What would it be
Peace, joy, such sweet serenity
A moment
As onlookers we pause
The scene stops there
No before and after
No pain, no despair
We stop
The Christmas story
The cosmic collide
Of God made man
Divinity and humanity
Eternal opportunity
Yet we try to hide
That, that comfortable Christmas scene
Meshes with pain and poverty
The little Lord Jesus
No crying he makes
Yet the tears of mother’s echo
As Herod’s hate outbreaks
Run
Feet blistered and hunger pangs
The cries of genocide still follow
As the Christ family now refugees
Fear of what could be of tomorrow
Pain
Cast your minds back
To the scene we gazed at
Where babe was sleeping
Mother and Father sat
And Peace
Let not our Christmas story be comfortable
But let comfort and pain sit
In holy union at the feet of the Christ
As the refugee and those in poverty
Sit with peace, joy and sweet serenity
Collide
Emmanuel