LOVE in 7 WAYS

It was by this tree that I sat when you asked me if I could teach love.

I certainly could teach love in many ways, but I would like to tell it in 7 ways that I know! In no particular order do they follow!

In love, I shall teach 

A: All I am, all I have, all I look to be is for you, is with you and is by you. 

I say A to you because in my present, you will fit, in my materials, you will have your share, in my future, you will be there, you will transition and grow with me without being void of yourself. All that I am is now you. 

N: with you that I’d be Naked and feel no shame 

All that I was, you will be aware of. So the past doesn’t spring up and take away our trust. For if I conceal from you, I cannot remain with you. Let me be unashamed and open enough. Let not words from me be brought up to tear me. 

S: that it is Safe and Sane 

Safe: that my darkest secret, messiest will, nastiest fantasies can be told to you. That you can be home when all hell breaks loose. And I can trust you to carry my sanity and not turn on me when I am weak to my knees. Yet, not all my wicked desires will be fulfilled because you will caution me to morality. Sane that you will be conscious of my wrongs lest they hurt you and you fear to pick yourself.

C: that I might be Covered and Corrected in Connection, not competition.

Shielded when I make a mess, that your tone doesn’t frighten me or give access to people to mess with me, that yet I can trust you to tell what should have been instead of what I made out of it, but only when we are away from others. Shield me, but guide me. Be soft, let not your words or action break me. But cover me not from unrighteousness. 

That it is you and I against the world, not us against each other. Your wins, mine, your losses, mine. Your death, mine. Unless I do wrong by you.

I finish your words as you do mine, familiarize myself with your vocabularies. Recognize your body even if the wind blindeth me. Intertwined as it should be. In partnership.

D: To you, I am Devoted, as you are to me, to us, we are Dedicated.

Whether I am lean, sick, healthy, fat, unfit, sound, alive, bald, conscious or otherwise. Be with me, be for me, be sold into the idea of me, live in the reality of me. May I be the best thing that has happened to you, as you are to me. May I tell your name in every sentence I make, may I never desire a life outside of you, not because I am caged but it would never be the same elsewhere, with anyone other than you. Love my love, practice my interest, cheer my hobbies, be my strength, choose me in my absence. Let my soul be familiar with yours, wait for me at the gate of Heaven if you leave first, that’s what I would do if I get there before you. 

G: Growth, Gain, Glory, Grace

Extend me grace, recognize that our background differs, hence I know things not in your ways but mine. Extend me grace and help me do you right. Glory; that what we share is desired, it blesses the heart of God, it fits His Will, aligns with His Intentions, doesn’t miss or give anyone tension. 

Growth, don’t leave me behind, I won’t leave you either. Don’t get too familiar with the territory we started from; evolve. I am drawn to it. Ain’t we all.  

F: Forgive! Fun! Fit my Shoes!

Because I am human and I shall err! But recognize when I mock your endurance. We will not always have our best days, forgive me when I do not recognize your worst. Forgive me when I am not enough, forgive me when I know not left from right, when my words are too big for my mouth. 

Fit my shoes; treat me as you’d like to be treated by me. 

Fun; should not a day come that we mourn. May our home and hearts ever bubble up.