It is shining newly bright, though it shone before.
It will be your guiding star, it will show you who you are,
Will you hide, or decide to meet the light?
Will you step into the light that can free the slave?
It will stand for what is right, it will heal and save.
By the pyramids of greed there’s a longing to be freed.
Will you hide, or decide to meet the light?
Will you tell about the light in the prison cell?
Though it’s shackled out of sight, it is shining well.
When the truth is cut and bruised, and the innocent abused,
Will you hide or decide to meet the light?
Will you join the hope, alight in a young girl’s eyes,
of the mighty put to flight by a baby’s cries?
When the lowest and the least are the foremost at the feast,
will you hide, or decide to meet the light?
Will you travel by the light of the babe new born?
In the candle lit at night there’s a gleam of dawn,
and the darkness all about is to dim to put it out:
will you hide, or decide to meet the light?
--Brian Wren
To hear Will You Come and See the Light? performed by Michael Joncas, Marty Haugen, and David Haas, click on the video below:
Image source: Epiphany window, Epiphany Catholic Church, South El Monte, CA,
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