Let’s try to do it
A goal that’s lofty
To love one another
Unconditionally
To start with a prayer
That I’m not worthy
And still love God loves
Unconditionally
The truth to sink in
For everybody
For our God loves them
Unconditionally
Let me now practice
With the next soul I see
To try to love them
Unconditionally
Perhaps it is an
Impossibility
To love everyone
Unconditionally
But to develop
A tendency
The joy found in loving
Unconditionally
Here is something
That you can’t do
You cannot make
Our God love you
No money can buy it
For there’s no price of
For you cannot
Earn our God’s love
Here is a truth
I want to you see
That God loves Jesus
As much as you and me
Perfect and pure
All blessed for free
Here in this moment
And for eternity
There’s a space beyond space
Past this galaxy
That flows from my heart
To infinity
There’s a time beyond time
From this moment to be
That flows from my soul
To eternity
There’s a time and a space
Blessed here to me
Oh Lord let me fill it
Dwelling with Thee
There’s a soul and a God
And connection of three
With a transforming love
Into divinity
The sky was dark
That summers eve
That drew me deep
Of thought, perceive
Of emptiness
Of space so great
So vast, it’s hard
To contemplate
And why do I
So long to fill
My time and space
With all my will
When God, it seems
Content to be
With nothingness
Just love for free
Overwhelmed with fear
Troubled is your soul
Do you not believe?
That I am in control
Feeling all alone
Heart full of despair
Do you not believe?
I am always near
Hopelessness abounds
The path is not clear
Do you not believe?
I will answer prayer
Feel no guilt or shame
Nothing to conceal
Come now to believe
I know how you feel
Take a step of faith
To say yes, I believe
Find healing, peace and rest
Through my love to receive
So often the times
When we’ve drifted afar
When we need to return
To who we are
Not want we have
Or things that we do
Not of what others
Are thinking of you
To take off the mask
Let ego subside
Return to the one
In love to reside
Indwelling of prayer
To return to the place
The infinite source
Of mercy and grace
Right to the core
Of our identity
We are His beloved
Let that truth, flow through me
A brush stroke of kindness
With love to see
Painting a landscape
Of surrounding beauty
A moment of pause
Gratefulness to employ
A drop in an ocean
Of a soul filled with joy
A simple little prayer
One thread to bind
Forming a cord
Of friendship divine
One step of faith
Of trust everyday
Aligning our compass
To follow His way
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
To free us from fear
And all our worry
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
Bound in protection
And security
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
Unlocking the way
Of divine mystery
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
With wisdom of Word
Through humility
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
From the chain of sin
With unending mercy
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
To infinite love
Through the Trinity
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
To heavens door
And eternity
Blessed our Lord
Who blesses the key
In the shape of a cross
One sacrificially
At the core of our faith
This conviction, be awed
We are the beloved
Children of God
Can we believe it?
In our head to abound
Be known in our gut
So, we are turned around
Go read the scriptures
This truth seeping, of
For I have loved you
With everlasting love
Here I embrace you
A covenant, be
You are mine, I am yours
And you belong to me
We have to hear this
As our guiding star
To live as the beloved
Because that’s who we are
When we start believing
Upon this knowledge formed
Our daily and Spiritual
Life will be transformed
We will still have pain
Still bear our cross
Successes and failures
Rejection and loss
But we’ll no longer live
Without identity
For we know who we are
As the beloved, we be
(based upon words by Henri Nouwen)
A place of inner peace
A goal of mine this day
Before the hours close
I found it drift away
With a vision of love
Through eyes to be kind
In stresses of life
My sight becomes blind
Commitment of my mind
To turn away from sin
Surrounded in this world
Temptations pouring in
If these are my desire
Help I need to find
Not of human strength
But one of the divine
For Jesus shows the way
To walk beside us here
A simple turn of gaze
And a word of prayer
DarylMadden 