“Love’s flames are flames of fire,
flames that come from the Lord.”
—Song of Solomon 8:6c (NRSV)
Such a
power as this humankind can’t conceive,
Love’s
from God—let no one deceive,
This
prospect of love is fiery ‘n’ enigmatic,
The Lord’s Creative Act, nothing sporadic.
***
Love’s the
language of our romance,
Love’s the
elixir, so get up and dance,
Such a
thing is glorious to see,
Love’s a thing generating glee.
***
Love is a
problem, we can only suppose,
When it
calls us to consider thought of our foes,
That’s
when love becomes a lament,
Times when we feel justifiably
spent.
***
Infatuation
comprises the immature love,
Of love
unrequited—a love called “shove,”
This is
the love that gets in the way,
Love like this is where we just
want to stay.
***
Passionate
love is all aflame,
Conspicuous
and driven for passion’s gain,
Energised
love carries us through,
To love’s defining moment—this
ardour is true.
***
Most
desperate of all is the love that’s bare,
Love like
this is harrowingly unfair,
No
prospect of love can we envision here,
Love like this we cannot hold dear.
***
The
greatest love of all is that from the Father,
To send
his Son to the cross—we would not rather,
That cost
of grace could never have been cheap,
That redemption of grace and look
at us now that reap.
***
Love takes
us on journeys resplendently real,
As if with
love we’ve got a heavenly deal,
Love is
kindness, courage and might,
And love most of all is the thing
that is right.
***
Love is
care—tidy and just,
Something
in creation that never becomes dust,
Love is
enduring, eternal and creative,
Energies of love are from God,
native.
***
Love is
intimacy—where we are close,
We love it
when love delivers its dose,
Trust and
respect are the deliverables at hand,
These are something upon which
love can stand.
***
There are so many ways of
describing love, but typically we narrow its definition.
Love is from God, of course. Such
a love created all we know and see, feel, and hear. Nothing would be if not for
love.
Love is eternal, from beginning to
end, as if eternity has a beginning and an end. Love is enduring even though
our use of love often fails because of sin. We fail it. Love does not fail us.
Love is the idea of relational perfection. She is an ideal. But love, however
hard it is to achieve sustainability, can
be achieved.
The agency to love is obedience to
God.
© 2012 S. J. Wickham.
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