Rise Up, Welcome the 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 wheat

Then a gold line opened where the hills had turned away

And every shuttered window caught the heat

Rise up, 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

A mother held her daughter by the old front gates

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 quell

The light that had been waiting there inside

Rise up, 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 one man burning

When the evening shadows fall

There is a light enough to lead us all