love is

What is love?

It is that feeling we feel

When we look at another?

Is, a many would say, a verb?

A choice to act in loving ways?

Some would say that love is God

But who has seen God?

Ah yes

That one, that strange man from Galilee

Who seemed so scandalous

So flagrant

So dangerous

And yet he was God

With us

and he was love

and in his love we

see that love sees with eyes that are unique

in love there is passion, yes

in love there is a hunger for

common places

things enjoyed

believed

liked

together

there is friendship

but above all there are eyes that see the other

as wonderful, unique

beautiful

amazing

not seeking those things

demanding

wanting

lusting

not seeking value

but giving value

endowing the other

with all the loving creating power of God

with that beauty and wonder

simply because there is love

that kind of love

Thank you God, for loving us that way