Episode 37 - Love

As I've been thinking about the love that God has shown to me in so many ways, I thought that this week I would share a poem with you that I wrote sometime ago. Sorry if you've heard it before or if poetry isn't really your thing...

Love

The friendship of a friend shared with his brother

The years of service to a child from her mother

With each different meaning, the Greeks give a new name

Yet the most verbose English always use the same

But what in reality does this word really mean

Are all of these things really all that they seem

We’ve all heard it said that it’s the air that we breathe

And the Beatles said that it’s all that we need

But then they also said that there were eight days in a week

So can we really believe anything they speak?

We seem to be filled with a great romantic notion

With songs and poetry all spun into motion

With warm fuzzy feelings and laughter and cheer

Sadness and sorrow don’t have a place here

But this in fact is only part of the tale

Without a strong wind our ship will not sail

We’re eating the icing without the rest of the cake

And making ourselves sick we say for loves sake

We have become gluttons who eat just to get fat

But true love is much more than just all of that

For love is more than just falling in love

More than just feeling like a hand in a glove

It’s about standing a lasting and building others up

It’s about pouring out your riches to fill anothers cup

It’s a choice made in the knowledge that all won’t be good

But still being willing to fight together against the flood

About helping someone through when life becomes tough

And caring first about them and not all that other stuff

And love on this earth has one shining example

A small taste of which I wish you to sample

The God of the heavens that made all that we know

Wanted on us His love to bestow

Such was His desire for us to know him

He sent his true son to pay for our sin

This son was made man to live on the earth

To give up all that His heavenly riches were worth

To die on a cross for the love of us all

That we might not pay the price of our fall

That we might know what true love is

That He is ours and we are His