How do you capture the ascents of angels?

How do you put words to the taste of their light?

You cannot describe how their words burn right thru you

How you became dizzy with heart pounding fright


In the midst of your fear, how they sang you a song

To the glory of God most High

How all of a sudden, that when they departed

That they left a hole in the sky


How do you worship a king in a cattle trough?

When you cannot bow any lower than he?

And what king of gift to give Someone with nothing?

In humiliating humility


Wrapped up in rags, what a heart-breaking sign

Yet on his sweet face, what a delight

The darkness that prows here cannot comprehend

This impossibly bright point of light


So everyone listened in awe and amazement

To all we’d been told ‘bout this beautiful boy

But Mary, his mother, she wordlessly wondered

And pondered her treasure of joy


Who could conceive how the Savior was born 

In a place only fit for the cattle to feed

His poverty made him our perfect Provision

The one hope for our every need


2010 Covenant Artists, ASCAP


guitar, vocals, Michael Card

bass, Keith Compton

accordion, Jeff Taylor