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The Word


I

The Word, the word, the WORD, the word, the WORD
took flesh, was meat and bone, left h’ven for earth,
descend to us and all the pain of birth
the pain of birth so all the world saw WORD!

What transformation of someone Beloved.
left Love to love, to show salvific care
Love’s love left all to come and show and dare
to show each part of earth that it is loved.

The WORD, belov’d, came down was born in love
Of woman, man – a human still divine
To save someone like you, like me from hell

The body not a fiction, not a glove
But born of flesh a body just like mine
words, Words, words, WORDS, words, WORDS, they cannot tell


II

words, Words, words, WORDS, words, WORDS, they cannot tell
the love that came to save this world from hell.
the streams of words may gush in flood pell-mell
yet never of the love begin to tell

when God, the Son, came down to earth for us
the emptied self that came as one small child
from glories lived to be the one reviled
the Godhead left to be with each of us.

that Word that came as human child not grown
that Word that we call human and divine
no words can be profound enough to tell

and words though wonderful could not have shown
the glories of the word as bread and wine
when God took flesh and saved us all from hell


III

when God took flesh and saved us all from hell
that love surrounded all the world with joy
creative power came as tiny boy
to tell each person all is really well.

and all is well within God’s world so good
though evil can seem stronger than God’s love
the serpent can be silenced by a dove
and God’s own Son who died upon some wood

God’s son who died upon some wood for me
God’s son who came to earth to show God’s care
God’s son is why I praise in song and word

God’s son who died that I might start to see
the love that emptied self of God to share
took on the woes of flesh yet still the Word