HOLY CHILDHOOD POEM

HOLY CHILDHOOD POEM

PRAYER: Chao Tzu-Chen, 1931.  This is a children’s hymn set to a Chinese tune. (Translated from the Chinese by Michael Counsell in 1997).

Jesus loves both great and small,

Children, though, especially;

Jesus called them one and all;

“Let the children come to me.”

Children in his circling arm

Gather, happy at his knee,

And he holds them free from harm;

“Let the children come to me.”

Jesus’ loving heart is kind,

Blessing our humility;

Grown-ups need a childlike mind;

“Let the children come to me.”

All of us need simple faith,

Trusting with simplicity,

Then he’ll welcome us at death;

“Let my children come to me.”