Love and Compliance

No one desires compliance more than I,
I follow Your Commandments like a chart,
yet then sometimes I sin and don’t comply,
but still, O Christ, I want You in my heart.

You said I prove my love if I obey,
yet I have other loves I cannot hide,
sin sometimes rules my soul, I go astray,
still in my heart I hope You, Lord, abide.

Compliance with Your Church I must insist,
I wish to, yet I have another will,
when sin keeps me from You in Eucharist,
I pray You, Lord, to stay in my heart still.

So when my will I fill with my defiance,
I, in my heart, still crave Your love’s compliance.

                        by Pete Voelz     6/1/14