"The Manger"

                                                  "The Manger"                                                   

Anne Wilson

They're putting decorations up

In front of my old church 

The shepherds and the wise men 

And the hay

There's Joseph and His Mary 

Lookin' down at heaven's birth 

And the angels saying 

Don't you be afraid 

It makes me stop

And think about

How you showed up down here

In a humble bed made

Of nails and wood

You could have

Picked a palace

Something more fit for a king

But then the story wouldn't 

Be as good

From the highest of the high

To the lowest of the low

That stable tells a story 

Of the distance You will go 

For the lonely and the lost

There's no sinner too far gone 

To find a savior

Lying in the manger

There's a star up in the sky 

That's calling all the least of these

Come make Your way 

To where Your hope is found 

If I'm honest some days I feel 

Too far out of reach 

But the manger reminds me

Love reached down 

From the highest of the high

To the lowest of the low

That stable tells a story 

Of the distance You will go 

For the lonely and the lost

There's no sinner too far gone 

To find a savior

Lying in the manger

You were carried by a

Manger and just 33 years later

By a rugged cross made

From nails and wood

And the tears 

Fill up my eyes

You didn't have to 

Give Your life

But then the story wouldn't 

Be as good

From the highest of the high

To the lowest of the low

That stable tells a story 

Of the distance You will go 

For the lonely and the lost

There's no sinner too far gone 

To find a savior

Lying in the manger

Away in a manger

No crib for a bed

The little Lord Jesus 

Laid down His sweet head

The stars in the sky 

Looked down where He lay 

The little Lord Jesus 

Asleep in the hay 

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