God's Love Song

A great love song is a moment of ecstasy frozen into words, a rhapsody of enthusiasm and passion, a metaphor pointing to a moment when the poet was lifted outside of himself to see reality in its ideal form. It charms us with a memory of the ecstatic moment or allures us with the hint that such a moment might yet be possible. A love song is meant to seduce us from routine into fantasised ideal of perfect love. God's love song is in many ways like other great love songs. This is our challenge: to find ways to bring the heavenly rhapsody down into our own worldly realities.