Behold your God!
But look not for him in great and mighty things:
The mountains grand and galaxies afar;
Look not in thunderous storms and raging seas,
But here, look here beneath this single, silent star
Which points not up to eminence and worldly fame
But down to poverty and human shame
Down to insult, down to human stress
Under the scorn of human wickedness
Look here among our weakness and our fears
Look here among our suffering, pain and tears
Wrapped here in this frail human life
Trapped here to feel for us all human strife
Look here, for here the One the seers foretold
Has come to lead us back into His fold …
As one of us, he lives, he speaks, he dies,
And reveals the one true God before our eyes.
Behold your God … he came with human hands
He left his footprints on our common sands
He lived our life, he took our place …
Incarnate God, amazing grace.
Copyright Rosemary Bardsley 2009, 2022