Can't See God

How can I love a God I cannot see?
If You’re all beauty, Lord, let me see You.
O God, why can’t You show Yourself to me,
or let me touch or hear or sense You too?

Where are You, God? I look, You are not there,
in Scriptue You write words, then disappear,
though I can’t see, I do meet You in prayer,
and then by faith, in Eucharist You’re here.

“The Father’s seen, if you see Me,” Christ said,
“You do to Me what’s done to one of these.”
Here are two ways that to You I am led,
I get to see You, Lord, but by degrees.

I’m blind, and then I see You by surprise--
I look into a hungry child’s eyes.

-- by Pete Voelz       12/18/12