Christmas eyes on America’s streets
Children of a country’s blatant need
A thread of the red, white, and blue
Seeking the company of a new view
A bright light to fill wide eyed hearts
A place to give hope, a place to start
Not in the moment, but in the change
That only a loving God could arrange
Christ in the hands of America’s song
An anthem to soothe all our wrongs
Seeking humility upon a manger bed
A homeless infant that our God fed
In spacious abandon, our God saves
In our country’s torn banner, it waves
Not as a united symbol of our nation
But as a Christmas gift, our salvation
Christmas eyes on America’s streets
An invitation to be another’s wheat

©Kathy Paysen 2009

May we fill the hearts of each other this holiday season.
May Christ be in your East, your West, your South, and your North.