Daily Reading for January 3

Let us awake, awake and give praise
Before daybreak,
To the divine heir of the heavenly land
There is a welcome.
The stars sang from the morning of the world,
All God’s angels together.
All the prophets sang
Without being false;
And why should we not sing as one
For having great Jehofa himself
In the manner of a man, and in our image
To truly heal us.

But despite his poverty on earth
He is still great.
All treasure under his seal
A gift of the most High;
He is the All-rich, famous One,
A strong tower to save humanity
He has every fullness in Himself
For Adam and his seed;
His is life for the dead to live again
He is a joyful physician to the broken heart,
A garment for the naked, complete and just
And justification.

“The Great Clumsy Carol,” a Welsh carol sung in the Plygain (Christmas carol service); quoted in A Celtic Primer: The Complete Celtic Worship Resource and Collection, edited and compiled by Brendan O’Malley. Copyright © 2002. Used by permission of Morehouse Publishing, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. www.morehousepublishing.com