a blessing for coming home to love (for the second Sunday of Lent)

Blessed are we who say,
God, if you are Love, then I want you.
I want love
and all that love can do.

God, I want to feel your love
for me in particular,
in the body I have now,
in the minutes and hours that mark my days,
among the people that are mine to love.

I want to feel in my bones
that you made me on purpose
in love, and for love,
to hold, and to give away.

I want love I can come home to,
love that shelters and sustains.
That is always ready and waiting
for the moment I walk in the door.
Love that with one glance speaks joy
just to be in each other’s company,
and yields space for whatever may come.
Hard things. Real things.
All in good time.

The love that sees and knows and loves
to the end of days.
The kind of love I could never earn,
nor ever lose.
Amen.

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