Lord, kiss me once more
Fill me with song
Allah, kiss me once more
That I may, that I may
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love like)
Wear my love like heaven (Wear my love)
Donovan
Leitch
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sometimes as I wander the outback
driving the tattered two-lane highways of
Eastern Oregon
I listen to the radio
and sometimes as I listen to my classic rock stations
which play the songs of my youth it is
Kairos time
I am no longer in my black AWD
but am back in a rather battered 60’s Willy’s station
wagon
and I am young again!
it is Kairos time
I am not remembering what it was like to be 16
I am 16
anamnesis
somewhere between Silvies Valley and Burns
the words came from my radio
wear my love like heaven
lord kiss me once more
fill me with song
that I may wear my love like heaven
and once I came back into chronos time
I wondered
what would it be like to wear our love like heaven?
it occurred to me that this is exactly what we are called
to do
if we would wish the Kingdom to be
on earth as it is in heaven
wearing God’s love means
to live a life consistent with heaven
it means, perhaps to create heaven, or Kingdom (as you
will)
to drag it into being
here and now
in chronos time
to me, this is not so much about individual “purity”
if there is such a thing
as it is about working to eradicate those things that
could not
would not exist
in heaven
in heaven, there would be no abuse of the new earth
no hungry children
no homeless families
no people thirsting for water (because Nestle bought the
water rights)
no guns
in heaven, there would be no CEO’s making $5000 an hour
while their employees struggle to make ends meet
no large corporations buying politicians
so to wear my love like heaven
means to be a person who seeks to get rid of anything
here on earth
that could not exist in heaven
to change my own behavior, yes
to be a person of agape-type love
but also to fight to change those systems
that crush, oppress and destroy
to fight systematic greed (toxic capitalism)
systematic racism (it is everywhere)
systematic abuse of political power
ah!
if only the Lord would kiss me
and fill me with song
and turn me into on
who wears my love like heaven
so that I with joy
accept all, welcome all, help all,
encourage all
so that I with joy
give all
including my heart
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