When Love Is Born

When love is born
It’s full of longing and yearning
Planning and dreaming
Full of desire

When love is in bloom
It is patient and kind
Long-suffering and gentle
Believing, hoping, enduring all things

And endurance brings maturity, but…

When love is mature
It brings suffering and sacrifice
Dying to self,
to self’s wants and desires

When love is planted
Dying like a seed
It reproduces 30, 60, 100 times
more love…

Then, when love is born…