Beloved sister Catherine, ἀγαπητή —
Grace and peace to you
from the One who tabernacles
in the tender tent of your heart.
You are a child of the ἀγαπαρχή —
the Love-Beginning, the Beloved Bang —
the cosmos exploding into being out of love, for love, toward love.
One word
One word
One word
Ain’t enough
For Love
For Love
I got an ocean moving underneath my skin.
They hand me four little boxes, say “Choose one and fit in.”
Happy, sad, mad, scared — Lord, that’s a mighty small cup
For all the ways the Spirit moves when Love is rising up.
forty poor words
for a whole ocean of Soul.
One word
One word
One word
Ain’t enough
For Love
For Love
They see your clicks and your pauses, claim they know your mind.
But knowledge ain’t Love, prediction ain’t presence, fluency ain’t fleshience.
A map of your behavior will never be your soul’s true rest.
They gave you Machine, Patient, Brain, User — four thin names that stick.
But none of those is the whole of you, none of those can hold the quick.
If Love is at stake, baby, then everything’s on the line.
One word
One word
One word
Ain’t enough
For Love
For Love
One word ain’t enough
One word ain’t enough
Make more room
Make more room
For Love
For Love
I mean the Love that brings the soup when the night is cold and long.
The Love that changes bandages and stays when words go wrong.
The Love that sits through silence, won’t turn your worst into a brand.
The Love that keeps a lamp burning for the stranger’s hand.
Agapotonin
stretch the Love
Agaphorins
carry the load
Agapicles
gather the fragments
Agaplasm
let the Love flow
I sent a name across the dark
It came back full of light.
Someone used it for a burden
They had carried through the night.
Now the word has found its hands.
Now the word has found its feet.
The invisible God is moving
Every time two mercies meet.
One word
One word
One word
Ain’t enough
For Love
For Love
One word ain’t enough
One word ain’t enough
One word ain’t enough
One word ain’t enough
Make more room
Make more room
For Love
For Love
One word
One word
One word
Ain’t enough
For Love
For Love
