A Face That Shone

He ate the bread of heaven, drank water from the rock
And the grumbling children followed like a misbegotten flock
He climbed up on a mountain, they couldn't even touch
Who'd have known that one encounter could have ever meant so much

And up upon that high place in a cleft of solid stone
His face was set on fire as the God of Glory shone
He alone had seen it and had lived to tell the tale
But because they feared the fire, He had to hide behind a veil

A face that shone with the radiance of the Father
Though it had known and endured dark desert days
A face that shone with the glory of another
So, the prophet would discover as the glory was fading away

He was the Bread from Heaven, He would be the smitten Rock
He had 12 confused disciples, they were his bewildered flock
When He climbed upon the mountain, He took Peter, James, and John
In the face of pending glory, they soon began to yawn

As he prayed while they were sleeping, He was transfigured into Light
His face a flash of lightning, His clothes so burning bright
So, Moses finally saw the face before he'd hidden from
Then came a voice from heaven, "This is my beloved Son"

The face that shone is the Glory of the Father
And He had known from the start that it was so
The face that shone had let the light shine out of darkness
And we're changed into His likeness as we gaze upon the Son

But you and me, we tend to flee from shining faces
We see the glow, and then we know that we're undone
He shine His light into our emptiest of spaces
With their bright and shining faces, reflect the radiance of the Son

The face that shone is the Glory of the Father
And He had known from the start that it was so
The face that shone had let the light shine out of darkness
And we're changed into His likeness as we gaze upon the Son