To Be Human

To be human is glory and grace
Born to live the highest call
Across our mortal time and space
The heart in loving, above all

Destiny pulls upon the soul
The brave who seek shall find
Yet the end is but not its goal
Truly love, both heart and mind

Love unlocks the sacred door
Gives wings for love to fly
Asks of love but no more
In love, to live or die

Sweet mortality, you teach
That each day passes swift
The future is for us who reach
To open your blessed gift

Let us make most of the time
To love and love without end
Love the virtue, most sublime
Returns to He who did love send

Love etches lines upon a face
Teaches gentle hearts to ache
Gives word to sweet songs of praise
Finds pain, its blessing make

God's great glory is His love
His grace His lowly heart
Bestowed unworthy from above
Inscribed in souls of art

Across the far-fetched ages past
When time had first begun to be
Love first spoke, and will speak last
Beginning and end, immortally

Time, her slow beauty passes by
She gently turns the pages
Rhythms of nature, earth and sky
Are unsearched wisdom of the sages

Love is teacher of the humble soul
Bestows both glory and grace
Makes the empty heart whole
The lowly wrapped in her embrace

To be human is the choice to love
This is our highest call
Love brings heaven down from above
Eternally loved, beyond all