Thursday, April 05, 2007

When All Has Been Given

This was written in compassion for those who have planted the seeds of love and truth, wisdom and care in one deeply loved and have harvested only the affliction of rejection.

When all has been given
All the love, all the care, all of the hope
All of the forbearance, all of the sharing the burden of pain
All of the deepest desires for a wellspring of life
All of the faith for life anew
All of the listening, all of the pain heard about hope had and now gone

When all has been given
And not all received
Not received because of all of the hurt
That has hardened a heart toward all of the love
Manifested through the love of all that has been given

When all has been given
And the time for giving has ceased
Ceased because of all of the hurt
That could not receive all of the love

When all has been given
And we look into the painful mirror of the past and see
What could have been said, what love could have done
So that the mirror of the past was not plagued
By the horror of what is now the present

When all has been given
And not all received
And the time for giving has ceased
And we look into the mirror and see the pain of the past
All that can be done is to see that

When all has been given
It is God that places a blanket of grace
Over the past of the acts of love given
That were not received
And over the past of the acts of love withheld
That were never given

When all has been given
And the blanket of God’s grace tucked in
The past is restored and the present is set free
Because the infinitude of God stretches over
The acts of love withheld
That were never given
And transforms
The acts of love given
That were never received

When all has been given
Grace gives the rest