If it requires I be a fool to love you, then an able fool I stand before you. loving.  If I must lose all to gain the moments we spend in concentrated learning, loving and laughing, then here are the keys to my castle.  If I must slave to righteousness, forbidden in things outside your character, then shackle me anew with the Spirit of You.  If I must dig in to an extended battle, pushing forward only to collect our wounded, then in this dirt I dedicate my life to our victory.  If I must run, let it be in your strength so that I never weary or faint.  If I must commit this life to be of any relevance then to which paper do I place my mark?

They are excruciatingly tiring in their questions, demonstrating their fear and desperation.  They are tiresome in their inability to consider anything but themselves and they exhaust me when I find myself having to define hope for someone who knows it not.  They challenge me when my teeth must be clenched in responding to their repeated negative responses.  However, they are his and I love them.  They are his and I love them.  They are his.

Lord I am okay with the timing of your coming.  I think I would prefer rapture, but the dead in Christ rise first.  I know this, that I miss you and know that my time is accounted for in this duty.  It is exciting to wait upon you.  It is easy to believe in you.  It is comforting to trust in You.  May your Mighty Name be Blessed and may you be held in full account of your Glory and Wisdom.  In Jesus’s Holy Unblemished Name.