Love Binds

Do we fear love or do we fear to bind?
With love there’s lots of take but more to give,
the binding makes demands, Lord, we be kind,
for me, or You and others do I live?

Since You are love, I must love like You, Lord,
if I don’t love like You, I don’t love true,
love comes with pain and cuts me like a sword
from selfish self, to bind with them and You.

Commitment means to give more than I take--
to You and to responsibility,
bound to a promise only love can make--
true love for You and others more than me.

It’s normal to feel love and want what’s mine,
real love binds us to give like love divine.

“Papa, I love you like God loves you,”
-- my grandson at 4 in my lap.

                      by Pete Voelz     8/22/14