With Nothing

Behind the song This song came into being in response to the stories we often hear in our culture about Jesus’s birth, those romanticized sweet and warm and prettied-up views of what it was like for Jesus to be born. But in fact, Jesus was born in a stable, as a person without much of anything, born into poverty and practically homeless, somebody who didn’t matter, didn’t count, somebody living on the margins. This song was written to remind us that Jesus came into the world with nothing in terms of wealth or power or status. He came only with love. But that love is a force to be reckoned with – more powerful than we can imagine perhaps…love might even be enough to bring “good news to the poor and release to the captives.” (Luke 4:18) Written by Hannah Rand in 2012 (when she was only 16) for the alt folk group she was in at the time – Me, You & Her – this is the original recording by that group. The Lyrics VerseIt was cold that night, just like tonightThe stars were burning brig