CHILD

 You have so many names

 Child in a Manger...

 Refugee child ... street child

 You are outcast ... unwanted

 Exploited… abandoned

 Fatherless, motherless

 Beloved, awaited

 Child in the Manger Who are you?

You once said:

 "Whoever receives one of these little ones

 in Your Name Receives You..."

 You want to live in our homes

 You want to open our eyes

 You want to enlarge our hearts

 You are no longer the Child in the Manger

 You are a child without a home

 You cry with hunger while scavenging

 the garbage cast from the rich man’s table

 You are tortured, you are whipped

 You are forced to satisfy adults' desires

 And yet you are the Love come from Heaven

 You still give hope to the world

If we let you live in our homes

 If we let you open our eyes

 If we let you enlarge our hearts