Anthology

PERFECT LOVE

All the letters stitched together

by fumbling hearts and wearied minds

can never capture the kind of love You have

in words of any humankind.

Your love so great and so untainted,

a love so pure as pure can be

the kind that scatters away all darkness

and brings the most hardened soul unto their knees.

A love that stood through time unrequited 

a love that embraces everything we are,

A quiet strength that grounds the shakiest of hearts-

that is the only kind of it by far.

For all our feeble attempts at loving

 always end up in selfish gain;

how truly fraile and lost we have become

as we endure our own brokenness and pain.

But Love Himself was birthed in a manger

one night in Bethlehem,

in ragged clothes You came to show us

of a love that does not judge nor condemn;

instead Love became incarnate
at the cross on Calvary,

when the God of all heavens and earth

endured such pain and suffering for me.

And even if it was for just one man
Love would ever do the same-

for He left the ninety nine sheep in the fold

to redeem the lost one that was sick and lame.
Never think that His love will not reach you
for height nor depth does not matter at all-
Christ's love is perfect and all encompassing,
and can break down the strongest of walls.

All creation and all of the universe
spoke of this perfect Love,
for they know the name of their Maker
and give praises to Him up above.
Jesus Christ
the Lion of Judah,
the most precious Lamb of God,
the sweetest Lily of the valley,
Has perfected within us His love-
in vessels of clay we come stuttering,
stumbling on our way through...
and yet it pleased Him to see us
to become exactly like Him too.

To also become Love incarnate
to also not judge or condemn,
to also look for the lost ones,
to also be life to the dead,
to also light the path of others,
to also give praise to His name,
 to also lift the brokenhearted
to become like Him- One and the same.


By kaye