By Steven Charleston
Love will not lose.
Even if the evidence of the daily news
Seems to suggest that it will
Even if we despair of the values we thought we shared
Even if we imagine the divisions between us
Have grown too wide:
Love will not lose.
Love cannot be constrained by legal walls
Political pieties or institutional fear.
Love is the subversion of power by mercy.
It is the uncontrolled spirit of hope
That erodes the authority of oppression.
Love is the human soul made visible.
Once we see it in one another’s eyes
No force on earth can compel us to deny its reality.
No matter what it takes, no matter how long it takes
Love will not lose.
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• When We Choose Love
• Until the Light Returns
• What the Wind Says
• Secret Language of the Heart
• Marianne Williamson on the Need for “Radical Love”
• Our Lives as LGBTQI People: “Garments Grown in Love”
• In Australia, “Love Has Had a Landslide Victory”
• “What I Want to Remember Are the Moments of Love”
• A Light That Will Always Shine
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• A Sacred Pause
• Susan Raffo: Quote of the Day – September 11, 2012
• To Be Alive Is to Love
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Ilia Delio
• In the Garden of Spirituality – James B. Nelson
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