A Time to Laugh

Our Savior’s infant cries were heard,
And met by human love,
Before He preached one saving word
Or prayer to God above.

In Joseph’s arms, at Mary’s breast,
while Herod’s violence spread,
God’s love by human love was blessed,
protected, nurtured, fed.

Whoever calms a child by night,
Or guides a youth by day,
Serves Him whose birth by lantern light
Was on a bed of hay.

For Christ, who was a refuge
From Herod and his sword,
Is seeking now, thro’ us to be
Our children’s friend and Lord.

Thomas Troeger, Baptist Hymnal [Nashville: Convention Press] 1991, No. 116

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