When it is darkest

Maybe the darkest time is just after birth when you still don't quite believe it and other have already forgotten.

It is a blue time of year

O God

A time between time

O God

Christmas seems to be over

The new year nearly upon us

It is a blue time of year

Talk now of incarnation

Proclaim now your promise being fulfilled

When we feel like it least

But need it most

Of Christ among us

It is a thin time of year

O God

The light, the hope, the energy

O God

We’re waiting for the new start

While tired from this year’s ending

It is a thin time of year

Live now as God one of us

Walk into the thinness of the time

And proclaim your riches of justice

When our belief is tired

Used up in the birthing of light

Reclaim incarnation

For the sake of the poor

Reclaim Emmanuel

For the sake of the lonely

Reclaim Christmas

For the sake of the hopeful

Reclaim the stable

For the sake of homeless

Reclaim the promise

For the marginalised

Reclaim the truth

For the believer

It is a bare time of year

O God

The promise, the light, the birth

O God

For those who are left on this side of Incarnation

Who have proclaimed its truth

but are called now to believe it

In a world that seems not to have changed

Except inside

Be born

in us

So be it