Of-From God...

 A stunning start to time's newest love...

Let's celebrate...not just because it's Christmas but because its Love of-from God to us!

It lights the wick that lights the quick

Of living’s highs and lows

Sometimes it is a thorny prick

Sometimes it is a rose

It turns the other cheek; a meek

-and-mildness; always right

Quick to forgive and slow to speak

Those words that wound or slight

It drives us to our knees with pleas

Yet reaches for the sky

And through patient humility

It teaches us to fly

It bore the birth of lowly earth

And death upon a cross

It pours in us life’s holy worth

…a sacred albatross

It helps, it hopes, it spills hard ‘asks’

A flask of smiles and tears

That makes glorious, homely tasks

And second-mile veneers

It is not always realized

Or recognized as such

This hard-soft-wounding-healing-prized

Oft misunderstood touch

It wears the name of Jesus, oh,

Demons quake, saints applaud

It bears the sweetest claim we know

It is love; of-from God

© Janet Martin