Advent Week Four: Candle of Love by Kaycee Owens

This week we light the candle of Love. Sometimes things are best understood through a story. So, the only preparation for this week is a song written by Jason Gray and Andy Gullahorn. The song was inspired by a story called Ragman written by Walt Wangerin Jr. and is worth our time. Listen to the song and read the lyrics. Allow the words and music to prepare your heart for this week’s Family Gathering.

I Will Find A Way

by Jason Gray and Andy Gullahorn

At the end of this run down tenement hall is the room of a girl I know

And she cowers behind all the dead bolt locks afraid of the outside world

So how should I come to the one I love? I will find a way

Many thieves and collectors have used that door but they only brought her shame

So she won’t even open it any more, still, I will find a way

I could call out her name with love through the walls But condemnation is all she hears

I could break down the door and take her into my arms but she might die from the fear

So how should I come to the one I love? I will find a way, I will find a way

How should I come to the one I love? I will find a way

No hiding place ever kept her safe so she hides inside herself

Now to reach her heart, the only way Is to hide in there as well

She gave up on love, waiting for a change but a change is coming soon

How could she not love the helpless babe who is waking in her womb?

I found a way, I found a way

She’ll know I am coming before I am here, when she hangs her head, she’ll see me there

And then when I come she won’t run away, all the beauty and joy will return to her face

And what of the loneliness? Now it is gone, lost in the bond of a mother and son

Every sin that she suffered at the hands of men

Every single disgrace will be washed clean again

I will love her completely and when I am grown

I will carry her out of that tenement room

I am doing a new thing, and soon you will see

I am coming among you and my name shall be Emmanuel

Advent Wreath Guide – Week Four