LOVE MOST COMMON, MOST EXALTED

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Love is common
To every human heart
There where God abides

And God is Love
Love Divine

Love, the most common
Form of prayer

It is not taught
It is simply there
In every single soul
Innate, God-given

In the Sanctuary of
Church and
Garden and
Every other place

Inhabited
Deserted

If anything is to be taught
About this prayer
This Love
It is that it be directed
Towards God
Finding its fulfilment
In Him

Love most common
Most exalted

By which one person
Is united to the other
And both and all
United to God
United in God

Trinity in One

In love is every prayer –
Adoration
Praise
Gratitude
The pleading of the beseeching
Believer and not

Love and prayer come to us
We come to Love

We come to God the Father
In Christ
In the Holy Spirit’s flaming

Fire
Wild wind and water

Every elemental simple soul
Infusing




Comments

  1. AnonymousOctober 18, 2022 at 4:57 AM

    God is good. Please help me to accept all the little daily tests, 🙏 making me a better person, and love all as we are one. Amen

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