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.