Love's Grace

Life is a package wrapped in grace and pain,
one is so plain, one is invisible,
one loads life down with sweat and tears and chain,
one lifts it up, a kind of miracle.

Love glows in drip drops, then leaps like a flood,
it beams its light and lets us see the grace,
pain stabs a while, draws suffering and blood,
love, grace embrace ‘til pain is but a trace.

Faith opens up our hope for love’s sweet end,
hope turns my face to gaze on what’s above,
made in His image, I become His friend,
life’s package opens, and all that’s left is love.

Faith, hope and grace reveal that life is best
when pain succumbs to love’s eternal rest.

                          by Pete Voelz         5/27/15