When I Seek-(A poem By Vanessa Redman Thorp)

When I seek the beautiful face of Jesus in my pain, I see His thorny crown, cracked lips and sunken eyes filled with tears.

When I seek the beautiful face of Jesus in my anger, I see His authority- bold, honest, truthful, restrained by His love.

When I seek the beautiful face of Jesus in my doubt & fear, I see Him in the garden of Gethsemane, drinking the cup of courage, pain and self-denial.

When I seek the beautiful face of Jesus in hunger and loneliness, I see Him pressed by the crowds, feeding the five thousand, being touched by the sick.

When I seek the beautiful face of Jesus In my humiliation, I see the radiant Glory from His throne, a Glory He rains down over my soul.

He has been there before me, Now He welcomes me to share in all He is, Never will He leave me, In Him I am at home.