Learning to Love

I will give you this, my love,

and I will not bargain or barter any longer.

I will love you, as sure as He has loved me.

I will discover what I can discover and though you remain a mystery,

save God's own knowledge, what I disclose of you

I will keep in the warmest chamber of my heart,

the very chamber where God has stowed Himself in me.

And I will do this to my death, and to death it may bring me.

I will love you like God, because of God, mighted by the power of God.

I will stop expecting your love, demanding you love,

trading for your love, gaming for your love.

I will simply love.

I am giving myself to you,

and tomorrow I will do it again.

I suppose the clock itself will wear thin its time

before I am ended at this altar of dying and dying again.

God risked Himself on me.

I will risk myself on you.

And together, we will learn to love,

and perhaps then, and only then,

understand this gravity that drew Him, unto us.

— Donald Miller

(Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality)

this spoke truth straight into my heart today.

i'm learning to love you.

just the way you are.
again and again.

every.

single.

day.