An Angel's Share

Deep inside this Christmas Eve

Watching as the hours leave

Gently drifting in the air

Shadows of an angel's share

Christmas lights

On Christmas nights

With peace for every nation

Stable scenes

And evergreens

With snow still glistening

Angels grace

This humble place

With hopes of our salvation

Christmas cards

And snow filled yards

And children wondering

Rejoice

All awaken

Rejoice

Quickly hasten

Rejoice

For the newborn king

Rejoice

For the vision

Rejoice

He has given

Hear the choirs as they sing

Scrooge returns

To once more learn

That Christmas ghosts conspire

To redeem

His soul it seems

But still he hesitates

To believe

He's not deceived

Until this night inspires

Him to find

That at this time

It never is too late

Rejoice

All awaken

Rejoice

Quickly hasten

Rejoice

For the newborn king

Rejoice

For the vision

Rejoice

He has given

Hear the choirs as they sing

And sing

And sing

And sing and sing and sing

Winter dreams

Her endless scenes

In endless combinations

To embrace

This world of faith

This world that we now see

Every year

It returns here

With all its variations

And as the day

It fades away

And we once more find that...

Once again the promise kept

One by one the angels slept

So we leave this night in peace

And the world in gentle sleep

When she finished the last letter

From that little stack

She put each one in its envelope

And carefully put them back

Then she sat and thought quite carefully

About all she had learned

Realizing that her belief in this night

Had completely returned

For if all these grownups she had read

Had in this night believed

It could not be possible

That they all had been deceived

And she marveled how though every letter

Was signed with a different name

That in the end it seemed that all

Their wishes were the same

That the light that reached our lives

From that distant Christmas star

Would make us, if not perfect

Then perhaps better than who we are

And suddenly she noticed

That there was a present there

He must have come and left it

When she had gone down the stairs

Then she realized as for that chimney

She needn't have worried after all

For Christmas she had found this night

Could not be stopped by walls

Could not be stopped by distance

Could not be stopped by time

And if one lived a thousand years

It would still be there to find

Now some will say that all these gifts

Were left by her father or her mother

But I for one, will always suspect

It could have been another

And before she went back down the stairs

With her fading candlelight

She found some paper and wrote down

All that had occurred that night

And sometime on some distant night

We really can't say when

Someone will read that letter

And this night will live again

And so our story's over

And the child returned to bed

To dream about this magic night

And where it all had led

And the Angel who had heard her thoughts

About what she had learned

Now realized that his job was done

And it was time he should return

And taking back all he had brought

He returned just in time

To appear before his Lord

And tell him what he had left behind

There were two souls reunited

On a snow blessed Christmas Eve

And sleeping safely in her bed

Was the child who still believed

And once again the Lord smiled down

From his heavenly throne

And took the Angel into his heart

And whispered, welcome home

And may you also hear those words

All through your life

But may you hear them most of all

On every Christmas night

Merry Christmas!