How Can We Name a Love

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1. How can we name a Love that wakens heart and mind,

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in dwelling all we know or think or do or seek or find?

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Within our daily world, in every human face,

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Love's echoes sound and God is found, hid in the common place.

2.  If we awoke to life built on a rock of care
that asked no grat reward but firm, assured, was simply there,
we can, with parents' names, describe, and thus adore,
Love unconfined, a father kind, a mother strong and sure.

3.  When people share a task, and strength and skills unite
in projects old or new, to make or do with shared delight,
our Friend and Partner's will is better understood,
that all should share, create, and care, and know that life is good.

4.  So in a hundred names, each day we all can meet
a presence, sensed and shown at work, at home or in the street.
Yet every name we see, shines in a brighter sun:
In Christ alone is Love full grown and life and hope begun.