Friday, May 12, 2023

We Cannot Make Love

Today I am making garden-planting plans!


Other things made this week?
Order from chaos!


Birthday cake and dinner memories...


...and of course, coffee!!😊


We are always making, aren't we?!!
Making plans, meals, order, things, memories, 
coffee...

But, we cannot make love...
And say, 'see, here it is', to set in front of someone
like a trophy to display upon a shelf
We cannot make it like a Thing and say,
'This is a Love'
So, where does love come from;
This 'Thing' everyone needs and can
never get too much of...?
Where is this Fount 
from whence all Goodness flows?
This 'Thing' that never fails,
Only the lack of it...


We cannot make love
Can’t bake it like a cake
Can’t steep it like a cup of tea
To soothe a bellyache

Can’t mold it out of clay
Can't forge it out of steel
To build a bridge to span the gap
Twixt heart-to-heart appeal

Can't cut it from a page
Or order it online
Can't woo it from whispering leaves
Or pluck it from a vine

Or buy it from a shop
Or shake it from a bough
Like red apples in autumn-time
Can't milk it from a cow

Or hatch it from an egg
Or catch it like a fish
Or carve it out of balsam wood
Or mix it in a dish

Or pull it from a box
Or paint it, like fine art
Or compose it with pen and ink
To lure/coax it from a heart

Can't wish it from a star
Or press it from a grape
Or force it from bud into bloom 
Can't knit it like a cape

Or weave it like a mat
Can't earn it by hard toil
Or pour and smooth it like concrete 
Or dig it from the soil

Ah, where can we find love?
High on a dusty shelf?
Or, do we start to find it when
We stop living for Self

Love is life's greatest joy
Love is life's greatest grief
Love is the evidence of God
That triumphs unbelief 

No, we cannot make love
The way we make a pie
Love is the heart/part of God in us
That only fools deny

Nobody has seen God
Only His majesty
Made manifest among us through
The likes of you and me 

Love; oft misunderstood
Love, ink of poet's laud 
The Great Equalizer of boast
Because love is from God

Janet Martin

1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, 
and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, 
that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us 
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12 No one has ever seen God; 
if we love one another, 
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

2 comments:

I hope you enjoyed your pause on this porch and thank-you for your visit!