Walking and Talking

The Poem i wrote for Valentine’s Day felly dinner 2008. It is about Christ’s love for the Church and how it is the source of all love. Indeed he died for our sins. It came to mind again as I’ve been thinking about relationships in my own life and in the life of people around me.

I once had a cute little crush,
I was too shy so I always stayed hushed.
Another took her, great was my woe
my joy was stillborn within my soul.

I pondered and asked, love why so cold?
wilt thou shun me till I’m old?
“Stillness, peace joy to to you soul!”
“Heartbreak”, the Lord said,” too did I know.”

He said to me:
“There was a woman that I did love,
with great passion and caring of
I made her, gave her all of my joy.
My treasures she played, just like a toy
(Gen. 1-3)

Sin I hate, my wrath was upon her!
I stripped her, naked before her lovers
Silly, brutal a stiff necked nation
hearts set on each new sensation
(Hosea 1-4)

But the love I have could not be contained
nor could her sin still yet remain
I contrived a way hoping against hope
that my lover and I once again may elope
(Psalms, Genesis, 2 Samuel)

I wrestled in the Garden drops of blood in my sweat
sorrow to death, my love had been set.
Her sin I absorbed, Crushed from above
is this not the evidence of love?
(The Gospels, Isaiah 53)

I loved her with my undying love,
I loved her with my dying love.
My Bride! she’s mine, I rejoice!”
This He told me with his own voice
(the Gospels, Ephesians, Revelation)

Brothers, Sisters, can we loved as he did?
We are more fickle than we’d like to admit.
So before you go off on your romantic search,
remember, twas Christ who first loved the Church

Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
(Ephesians 5)