We had this sent to us in a family newsletter - wanted to share it with you, so powerful and so poignant...
O sad and troubled Bethlehem,
We hear your longing cry
For peace and justice to be born
And cruel oppression die.
How deep your need for that great goft
of love in human form.
Let Christ in you be seen again
and hearts by hope made warm.
While morning stars and evening stars
shine out in your dark sky,
despair now stalks your troubled streets
where innocents still die.
And Jesus, born of Mary,
Whose love will never cease,
feels even now your pain and fear,
Longs with you for your peace.
Amazingly and lovingly
Jesus the child has come
and, brought to birth through human pain,
makes broken hearts his home.
He comes to comfort all who weep,
to challenge every wrong
and, living with the weak and poor,
Becomes their hope, their song.
Words by Wendy Ross-Barker
