All-Age Prayer
(How many carol titles?)

 

Loving God
Baby God
away in a manger
we come all faithfully
to find you
in that little town of Bethlehem
and there we imagine you
see you lying on a bed of straw
“What child is this?”
the world asks
May we reply
this is the infant lowly, infant holy
Jesus Christ

So let us travel tonight
from shepherds watching their flocks by night
into Royal David’s City
and shout with them
joy to the world

and ask the world:do you hear what we hear
hark the herald angels sing
and may we sing with them
and tell the world
love came down at christmas

and as with gladness men of old
follow that star
may we follow it too
to that first noel
and find the child in the manger
and when we pause
in the silent night
we hear the angels sing
glory to the new born king

and hear in their song
and every carol
the invitation
our invitation to you O God
Come, O come Emmanuel