Tune: St Columba 8787 Iambic BPW394(ii)
Michael Docker
Our human faces mark the way
Earth’s hate and fear is taking,
The human face of God in Christ
Reveals the love God’s making.
Our world is shackled to the way
Of beauty shown in faces,
The human face of God in Christ
Shows beauty in God’s graces.
The faces of the poor are hid –
The hurt, the marred, the silenced.
The human face of God in Christ
Unmasks our shameful violence.
Till we have faces formed like Christ
Of peace and cross-borne beauty;
We’ll look to see God’s human face
In every servant duty.
Till we have faces, like the cross
That’s signed in every feature
The human face of God in Christ
Reveals, we’ll heed the Teacher.
So hail the human face of God;
The world is still concealing;
The poor, the weak, the world’s unloved -
Christ’s face they are revealing.