Christmas // Week 5 // Dec. 31 - Jan. 6

Up in the fields, with shepherd and sheep

A withered old tree reaches out from her sleep

To call to the star, the night-watch now keeping

“Are you the one from the stories of old?

Is He the one sent to heal and make whole?”

Out on the plain, between dust and stone

A tender young sapling, hardly half-grown

Whispers to the family walking alone

“Are you the ones from the stories of old?

Is He the one sent to heal and make whole?”

To bind up the brokenhearted

Bring good news for the oppressed

With a garland instead of ashes

Planting oaks of righteousness

Down in the city, with no room for belief

An olive branch rustles, offers a leaf

And cries to the child, who has come like a thief

“Are you the one from the stories of old?

Are you the one sent to heal and make whole?”

Up in the fields, out on the plain,

Down in the city, they’re shouting his name

The mountains and trees sing with joy the refrain

“This is the one from the stories of old

He is the one sent to heal and make whole”

“This is the one from the stories of old

The one who the star and the prophets foretold

The Shepherd who gathers us into the fold

Jesus, the Son, sent to heal and make whole”

Lyrics: Greg Yoder, 2023

Music: Greg Yoder, 2023

Vocals: Lauren Yoder and Mitchell Yoder