[Verse 1]
Tears are falling, hearts are breaking
How we need to hear from God
You've been promised, we've been waiting
Welcome Holy Child, welcome Holy Child
[Verse 2]
Hope that you don't mind our manger
How I wish we would have known
But long-awaited, Holy Stranger
Make yourself at home, please, make yourself at home
[Verse 3]
Bring your peace into our violence
Bid our hungry souls be filled
Word now breaking heaven's silence
Welcome to our world, welcome to our world
[Verse 4]
Fragile finger sent to heal us
Tender brow prepared for thorn
Tiny heart whose blood will save us
Unto us is born, unto us is born
[Verse 5]
So wrap our injured flesh around you
Breathe our air and walk our sod
Rob our sin and make us holy
Perfect Son of God, perfect Son of God
Welcome to our world
Welcome to Our World was written by Chris Rice.
Welcome to Our World was produced by Monroe Jones.
This song is intentionally naive. ‘Our’ world? Breathe ‘our’ air? Walk ‘our’ sod? It is too much to take in that God would go to these lengths to display His love so beautifully. Such a fragile finger, with a tiny fingernail, that would be the means of God reaching out to us and restoring us as His...