Rise Up, Welcome Day

Find Jesus now before the sun goes down

Before the sunrise, the whole valley lay in gray

Cold wind moved like a warning through the wheat

Then a gold line opened where the hills had turned away

And every shuttered window caught the heat

Let your heart become a flame

When the long night breaks

Nothing stays the same

From far roads, from far seas

People find their way

Rise up, rise up

Welcome in the day

A mother held her daughter

By the old front gate

Her sons came home

With dust beneath their shoes

Kings were only travelers

Laying down their weight

And strangers

Brought the harvest of good news

She looked across the fields

And joy began to swell

Like rain inside a river running wild

The darkness had been deep

But it could never dwell

The light that had been waiting there inside

Rise up

Let your heart become a flame

When the long night breaks, nothing stays the same

From far roads, from far seas, people find their way

Rise up, rise up, welcome in the day

Keep on the burning, when the evening shadows fall

There is light enough to lead us all