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Love Called My Name
Love called my name,
Calling me
From a forbidden childhood game-of pain
Love introduced itself, with open arms
And took me by reluctant hand,
And showed me its plan for me
But, I could not see, so I ran, and ran, a vagabond
Love watched me go and declared
“I am married to her”
Love followed me to dark corners and low valleys
From back rooms, to back seats,
I was dejected and shoved
Yet I rejected faithful love,
Over and again
And it persisted to be my friend
I hated love once
For I thought it was a farce
So often I wanted to swing freedom
From the noose of a scarf
But love said, not so.
Love waited patiently for me
On the wanton street corner of debris
Love washed my wounds and
Healed my deep infected gashes
Love declared, “She is healed!”
Spoken through thirty-nine brutal lashes
Love showed me such kindness
A swallow wallowing in my mess
Love lifted me, love-lifted-me, from a whirlpool of mental madness
Love proclaimed
“She is clean!”
Flowing through a blood line of purifying redness
Love liberated me
In the court room of doom
Love stood up, spoke up, in my defense, declaring,
“It is finished”
Love announced
“She is free”
Love fought for me, from a rugged cross road of misery
Love believed in me
When all hope was lost, and frustrated parents
Forsook me, wearied of redundant accost
Love took up my cause
Carrying my case to the cross
Breaking chains of generations past
Love has strategy in its mercy
Love rebuilt my brokenness
An old, disheveled, abandoned hut
Love put things back in place, that time and crime erased,
Oh but, love hammered on and nailed a new foundation
Love established me, a new creation
No longer a plundered village, but a city set on a hill
Love redeemed me and called me precious still
Love suffered long to bring me to His desire
Love has ravished me by the power of His Holy Fire
Love has taken me from the low valley to the hills higher
Now I devote myself to my one and only Lord and Sire
Love is God … God is love … Love lifted me.
