Author: Shirley Murray, 1931- Hymnal: The Book of Praise #808 (1997) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Scripture: Luke 2:25-32 Lyrics: 1 Come in, come in, New Year
with sparkling winter day!*
Your promise calls us here
to celebrate and pray,
through January's open door
to stride with hopeful step once more.
2 Come in, New Year, and sell
your wares of chance and change:
engage us with your spell
to risk and rearrange,
to feel the Spirit's impulse beat,
to follow down a different street.
3 For though December dies,
still Christmas keeps the light,
the hope in children's eyes,
the star that shatters night;
now Simeon and Anna see
the child who rules all time to be.
4 The calendar of Christ
will mark the seasons' turn;
his story claim our trust;
his love be ours to learn.
For all the world, for young and old,
we pray a year of peace unfold!
*original words: shining summer day Topics: Christmas; Hope; Old and New Year; Prayer / Prayers / Poems; Promise; Trust Languages: English Tune Title: CROFT'S 136TH
Come in, come in, New Year