(244-245) Works of Love Part III
Love Hopes All Things and Yet Is Never Put to Shame
Love . . . hopes all things. (I Corinthians 13:7)
Love endures eternally
And in love we can endure
The distortions of post-modernity
And keep our hoping pure
In love's eternal enduring, we can hope
That our eternity endures and exists
The sense of this is within love's scope
And so in the lover it persists
Real love brings us our generosity
Because love and hope are boundless
We abandon mistrust's pomposity
For love sees that it's groundless
Our hope and love say life's meaningful
In spite of all clever arguments
Which are pretentious and quite pitiable
Sophistic in their heartlessness
They say "all hope, all love, and God abandon”
This is the end they must achieve
Turn all of life into nothing but what's random
In that they ask us to believe
But belief is a thing most sacred
Not the result of cleverness
No belief can make love hatred
They abandon hope and become emptiness
Love and hope are acts of belief
Both all things encompass
There is no shame there but relief
In eternal love at last