Love's Demand by Carl Walker"I DEMAND," said Love, and it seemed so strange for the demand was the demand of death
"but life," Self protested, "is what I seek." a stir within I can't control compelled, I am, to submit life's life is what calls and love is what seems to answer "Here, here, is your life; in Self's submission to love."
I answered life's call by submitting my heart to the bondage of love
then I got confused
Self wanted life but love's demand was death to Self I wanted fulfillment but I pheaared the death of self and so confused I damaged love
ah, a whisper ah, so softly not the Siren's call a voice hardly heard a mystery Fulfilment's fulfilment could not be seen Fulfilment's fulfilment could not be understood for the cacophony of Self's desire
for the fulfilment of love the meaning the depth the power the grace
only in the relinquishing of Self to love comes fulfilment and then it comes in a flood
i can't explain it but i can know its truth
so hold your heart close, dear reader once given, so difficult to retrieve
"Is love's object worthy of death to Self?"
because only in relinquishing of Self comes love's fulfilment
another mystery, so hard to explain another mystery, so hard to understand
find an object worthy of your death die to Self for it and find what you wanted all along
fully filled full fill meant
but we cannot discern what is truely worthy to lay our life down for
and not discerning we give our self over to things ungood, or hoard our self to our self
that's why we need a savior who, for love, laid His life down that we might have
LIFE
abundantly
through relinquishing Self to Him
fully filled full fill mint in losing Self in Love 04/17/2002 Posted on 04/17/2002 Copyright © 2025 Carl Walker
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Posted by Kate Demeree on 01/19/03 at 04:06 PM *smiling* I have been sitting here reading this, and to me it is no mystery it is second nature, how can you do else but love completley if it is love? What is life but love, what is love but life? I like what you write... |
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