A Most Loving Gift

The birth of a Savior
So low and so dim
The mystery in the East
Redemption begins

A child grows and learns
A man he becomes
One chosen by God
Holy power descends

A man among men
Leading a life
His ministry,
It begins

A leader among many
A rebel by choice
The choice,
Not his own

The Son of God
Sent into the world
A hero for all
Rejected by many

The leaders
Condemned Him to death
His mother
So many tears
She must have wept

Brutalized
Crucified
A sacrifice
For all

He left this world
At the hands of the law
To return
Three days later
A savior of all

The nails that pierced
His hands and feet
The blood stains
On the ragged sheets

A man above men
Walked out of a tomb
Leaving the clothes
Of death behind

It was the women
Who found Him gone
How could they know
Where He had gone

The promises He made
The blood He shed
The sacrifice He gave
The love we know

A gift from God
A loss here below
A mother mourns
A mother knows

A Christmas prayer
That we all could know
The gift He gave
For us left here below.