(235-240) Works of Love III
Love Hopes All Things and Yet Is Never Put to Shame
Love . . . hopes all things. (I Corinthians 13 : 7)
Hope and the Eternal
Love does not come in some specific age
Although it's always bright and young
It speaks to us of what's eternal made
From which all of life has sprung
We have a choice to live life in hope
Or to live it in despair
We can break with the eternal scope
Where the end's not end is there
When we are aware, hope is always teaching
Of the eternal in small segments
To the whole of hope it is always reaching
In each moment, the eternal's present
To hope all things thus has this meaning
All of the good is existential
Hope is the love through which we're seeking
What makes life consequential
We can mistrust the good itself
And suppose it is impossible
When possibility turns in on all that's else
It makes the eternal improbable
Yet in this sacred conversation
We still hope for the mistrustful soul
We need not give up on divine inspiration
Thus love believes in all
Our hope for others, we will not surrender
Even in the face of mistrust's denial
Through love we can build and thus can render
A real hope for the other's revival