“Chosen Home" Original Hymn (Home, Chosen Family, Jesus in the Temple)
“Chosen Home" Original Hymn (Home, Chosen Family, Jesus in the Temple)
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This hymn, originally written for the Close to Home bundle for Advent 2021, is created for use in congregational worship and other ministry contexts. We’ve set fresh words of faith to a well-loved public domain hymn tune for maximum singability.
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“Chosen Home”
ADESTE FIDELES 6.6.10.5.6 with refrain (“O Come All Ye Faithful”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John Francis Wade, 1743
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Lyrics:
“Chosen Home”
ADESTE FIDELES 6.6.10.5.6 with refrain (“O Come All Ye Faithful”)
Text: Anna Strickland, 2021
Music: John Francis Wade, 1743
As Jesus’ family
Traveled back to Nazareth
He stayed and claimed a space
Inside temple walls
Seeking a place where
He could show his true self
Refrain:
A place that truly sees us
A place that loves and frees us
Like tables set by Jesus
Is our chosen home
In later years he
Called his chosen family
Fishers and tax collectors
Women and men
Leaving his home to
Eat with saints and sinners
Refrain
We may not find home
Where it is expected
Sometimes we have to leave
To be who we are:
Wholly created
In God’s holy image
Refrain
May this be a
Brave space for all people
Where all are seen and loved
Among family
Space to grow and
Follow in our callings
Refrain
credit info:
Hymn text by Rev. Anna Strickland | A Sanctified Art, LLC | sanctifiedart.org
