Love Never Fails

We do not know
everything about you,
but we know the truth
of what you have revealed.


The creativity that glitters
those raging, fiery suns

to twinkle in distance

and pin-point the night sky

with soft beauty.

The creativity that speaks

with intent and purpose,

causing nourishing growth

to unfold in vast petals of colours

that inspire more creativity;

that shapes a being with choice

and all the complexities

of what it is to be a person...

and you breathed life into our nostrils.

We do not know

everything about you,

but we know the truth

of what you have revealed.

Your unbridled compassion

that pursues and chases.

Your patience that endured

the dust of centuries of ignorance,

and the filthy spiral of

broken human aspiration

to claim our own divinity,

or to label the most putrid of selfish gain

with the will of God.

We know your patience,

that keeps turning cheeks

and refuses to destroy the guilty.

We do not know

everything about you,

but we know the truth

of what you have revealed.

The self accommodation,

the stooping to meet us

in our flesh and breath.

To communicate most profoundly

the purpose of man,

the personality of divinity,

and the true intention of family

and mutual belonging.

We know you through that unique revealing;

a life that would not

pander to the mob and

stir with propaganda;

whose compassion and power

drew vast crowds and

whose uncompromising truth

and always pointing upward

many could not accept.

Whose death fools mockers

of their own victory

in the tragedy of broken skin

and wasted dreams.

But whose death is

fully realising the poison of rejection...

and swallowing it;

making family of estranged generations,

and whose resurrection is a promise

and a sure hope

and a proclamation of freedom from death,

and it is by this we know love

and love that does not fail

We do not know

everything about you,

but we know the truth

of what you have revealed.

I know that I was lost in sin and death.

I know that this world is broken.

And I know that those who

are being asphyxiated by debt ,

poisoned with addiction,

scarred by abuse,

bled by loss,

and weathered by unsympathetic, hard and cold streets,

can find their hope and the truth of this gospel,

the truth of who you are,

and by this we know love:

A love that does not fail.

Written for and performed at the Watford New Hope Trust 22nd birthday celebration on 23/03/12.

An exploration of God's unfailing love, through creation, his pursuit of 'humanity on the run' culminating in his self revelation and redemption in Jesus' life, death and resurrection, and a small expression of the width and depth of the hope of this gospel for the desperate and forgotten.