The how of love
Week 20, Day 5b
Philippians 2. 1-13
For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it. Matthew 16:25
Set Love free
and she will lose
this time
and the next time
and the time after that.
Losing is the how of love.
Set Love free
and she will reach
with emptied hands
deep into the poverty
of caring
to share her bounty,
which is to save
your life.
She will take it from you
shake it and shape it
giving it back birthed
anew
saved and well.
Save your life?
Lose it, says Love
You can only hold what flows
through your fingers.
Live lost.
Learn the victory of defeat,
the gain of losing,
of being, not grasping
what must be let go
of emptying into the form
of serving.