"Immanuel, Your World Awaits"
Copyright 2001, ChicagoRev

Tune: IMMANUEL (written by a pal of mine from seminary who wrote it especially for this text)

Written in response to the coming of Advent so soon after 9/11

Immanuel, your world awaits
Its foretold Savior King.
Creation groans for lack of you.
Come, Love, for you we sing.

Beset by trials, by loss made numb,
Our lost and trembling earth,
Longs for the new world promised us.
Come, Hope, spring from new birth.

We hear again the prophet’s call,
In hope, prepare the way.
Our God, long-hidden, is at hand.
Come, Joy, transform dismay.

God let the choirs of heaven sing,
Calm our impatient fear.
We crave your love, your grace, your peace.
Come, Infant, meet us here.