Harikoa | Joy

A candle is burning,

a candle of JOY;

A warm glow to welcome brave Mary’s new boy.

New life like a koru now being unfurled.

God’s promise of joy to an expectant world.

From “A Candle is Burning” by Sandra Dean, Ottawa.

(Words adapted by REv Cate Burton and Penny Merton, St Peter’s Tauranga, PCANZ, to make it more “Kiwi”).