WE CAME FROM OUR HOMELAND IN THE EAST
STARGAZERS AND PRIESTS AS WE WERE KNOWN BACK THERE
TO SEEK OUT THE CHILD BORN TO BE KING OF THE JEWS
FOR WE HAD OBSERVED HIS STAR RISING IN THE SKY.
HAD TRAVELLED MANY WEARY MILES TO WORSHIP HIM
FOR WE WERE WELL VERSED IN PROPHECIES AND SIGNS
WELL STUDIED, RESEARCHERS, INTERPRETERS’ OF DREAMS
WE ENTERED JERUSALEM IN OUR CAMEL CARAVAN
CREATING A RIGHT STIR AND COMMOTION
PEOPLE PUSHING AND GAWKING TO SEE US PERSIANS
WITH OUR LINES OF SERVANTS AND ARMED GUARDS.
WHEN KING HEROD HEARD OUR WORDS, HE WAS SHAKEN TO THE CORE.
WHAT SHOOTING STAR? WHAT NEW KING?
HE ENQUIRED WITH DEADLY CALM
WANTING TO KNOW THE EXACT TIME THE STAR HAD APPEARED.
HIS OWN JEWISH PRIESTS CAME UP TRUMPS
WITH A PROPHECY ABOUT THE MESSIAH
POINTING THE WAY TO BETHLEHEM
WHERE THIS SHEPHERD-KING WOULD EMERGE.
WE WERE QUICK TO LEAVE HEROD’S COMPANY
TO JOURNEY OUT AFRESH, WHEN SUDDENLY THE STAR
WE’D SEEN IN THE EAST REAPPEARED
LEADING US DIRECTLY TO THE EXACT PLACE
WHERE THE CHILD WOULD BE.
WE WERE SHOUTING AND HALLOOING
TEARS FLOWING, PUNCHING THE AIR WITH JOY.
WHEN WE GLIMPSED THE YOUNG CHILD
WITH HIS MOTHER, MARY, WE FELL TO OUR KNEES
OVERCOME WITH AWE AT THIS DIVINE KING
WORSHIP SPILLING FROM OUR LIPS.
OUR DESTINY DAY, OUR MISSION ACHIEVED
WE WERE CHANGED FOREVER.
OPENING OUR TREASURE BOXES, WE GAVE HIM GOLD IN ABUNDANCE
MYRRH AND FRANKINCENSE, FITTING GIFTS FOR THIS PRINCE OF
PEACE.
Words by Christine Pearson
