(41) Works of Love
Your Shall Love
The Royal Law
“All things are made new”
In love, we know, all things are made new
For all the powers of life spontaneous
Through it we’ll find what is the truth
All else thus seems extraneous
From out of our emotional turmoil
Love arose as something pure
It brought us balance if not control
Of this we can be sure
Out of all our feelings, both confused and chaotic
Can arise our love in purity
At times both intimate and cosmic
We can love in universal unity
From our self-renunciation
The best of self will stay
In a divine sort of delineation
We can reach the highest in this way
“Worldly goods are inconsequential”
These temptations are external
What’s within us is so essential
That in faith we are original
This faith comes in its simplicity
And not because we’re shrewd
Still we can use our ingenuity
To protect us from what’s crude
When we feel by love possessed
It’s an act of deepest faith
Love’s a duty by which we’re blessed
And it offers an endless strength