An Advent Candle Lighting Song
Tune: Cranham, Gustav Holst – the same tune as “In the Bleak Midwinter”
Lyrics by Rev. Elana Keppel Levy, 2024
1. Kindle Advent candles.
Hope will be renewed.
Dreams may fade from vision:
Purpose unpursued.
Though it seems relentless –
Misery and loss.
God will do a new thing:
Swift and soft.
2. Kindle Advent candles.
Peace will be restored.
Clashes serve the schemers:
Victims’ cries ignored.
Scars appear around us.
Can they ever heal?
We must walk a new path:
Make peace real.
3. Kindle Advent candles.
Joy will soon rebound.
Lost in rifts of numb shame –
Hiding from the crowd:
Will we find belonging
If they see our face?
See, we are God’s children,
Claimed in holy grace!
4. Kindle Advent candles.
Love endures through all.
Hate brings fleeting power.
Love’s a real curveball.
Cherishing each other,
Heaven comes to earth.
Sacred transformation
Brings rebirth.
5. Kindle Advent candles.
Jesus lives today.
Christ who shaped the cosmos
Joins those born of clay.
Oh, that we might hold him:
Our Emmanuel!
He is with us always:
All shall be well!
Image credit: “Advent Candles in the Kitchen” by Øyvind Holmstad, 2022.
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