God’s Mask And Mine<br />By Reid Baer<br /><br />If I were a wise man <br />I could distinguish with-<br />out wealth between a con-<br />descending love and the <br />condescension of Christ.<br /><br />I pray that I might start<br />and end this journey own-<br />ing my cynical heart <br />toward humanity and <br />let stark humility <br /><br />Awake me to the great<br />necessity of my <br />mortality and the <br />quintessence of His face -<br />divinity itself.<br />-