IN EVERY FACE THAT STARES OUT FROM THE MANGER - Incarnation now - hymn

In every face that stares out from the manger,

each person bears the image of our God,

in Christ is human flesh affirmed and honoured,

for God has walked where human feet have trod.

In every face of youth, of age, each baby,

uplifted by the earth life of the Christ:

the stable bed, the cross of common torture,

marked off his life, these markers once sufficed.

And this we show, when we live incarnation,

to make God's presence real for humankind,

the wine we drink, the bread so freely broken

speak of the love of God so richly mined.

And those who live and suffer in this moment,

the dispossessed, oppressed throughout the earth,

are raised beyond frustration and existence,

to know, in living, their uncommon worth.

© Andrew Pratt 28/11/2011
Tunes: O PERFECT LOVE or INTERCESSOR
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