Simply love in all its glory,
simply love with all its pain,
we retell the age-old story
masked in myth to take the strain:
strain of human understanding,
God with us, Immanuel named,
cosmic Christ with angels standing
round a crib: creation tamed.
Look with eyes not masked by history,
not constrained by things we’ve heard,
not obscured by fact or mystery,
so remote to seem absurd:
Jesus born a human being,
living love and hope and grace,
no more veiled, but clearly seeing,
meeting us in every face.
Andrew Pratt 10/12/2018
Tune: CALON LAN
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http://www.stainer.co.uk.
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CALON LAN is a wonderful tune that could easily give one goose bumps. I especially liked the words to the original song that speak to pure hearts filled with virtue above all the riches in the world.
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After hearing it sung so harmoniously by Only Boys Aloud (catchy) I came back here to your blog, and hummed the tune adding your Christmas hymn. It works!
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Thanks for your kind comments
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You are very welcome Andrew. Highest and Best!💥
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