Rangimarie | Peace

A candle is burning,

a candle of PEACE;

A beacon to signal that conflict must cease.

For Jesus is coming to show us the way;

a koha, a taonga is laid in the hay.

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”).