'Till We Have Faces (When I Was Born)

When I was born I had no face

Or hands or feet, my life disgraced;

But change came quickly from the skies

When brightest lightening gave me eyes

The splendid colors there to see

But hearing hid itself from me.

‘til thunder shook my body still

I saw the quaking, heard the chill.

The quiet voice that gave me ears

Ne’er ceased to speak through silent tears

And now I listen quietly

Though footless running tires me

My name was entered in a race

I ran to win and feet were placed

Upon my legs that I might run,

Not stopping ‘til I reached the sun

Yet running didn’t do me well

Since I could see but couldn’t feel

I saw a rose and heard it call

I needed touch once and for all

And as the thorns brought pain and harm

I found some hands upon my arms

Then the rain fell down in floods

As from Your side came gushing blood

It splashed upon the pavement here

And washed away my every fear

I saw it fall down from the sky

I heard it hit my tired eyes

I ran to hide myself from cold

And caught the drops with fingers bold

When from the ground aroma rose

The raging storm gave me a nose

But all of this without some lips

Left me alone, a sinking ship

An angel flew from heaven high

With burning coals he cauterized

My mouth and what it left behind

Not scars, but lips, a tongue refined

And also the ability

To taste, to speak, to breathe, to sing

The death that brought me everything

Taught me to die in heaven’s wings

And now I’m born in glory’s grace

With hands, and feet, and now a face

Inspired by Luke 8:10, the classic novel "'Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis, and the hymn "Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder"

"Let us love the Lord who bought us Pitied us when enemies Called us by His grace and taught us Gave us ears and gave us eyes"

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