The Psalm of Forever
Forever is a holy word
I've stolen
from God's vocabulary
that I dare to utter
when speaking of my love for you.
From the ten thousand names of God,
with lips trembling in fear,
I have chosen Forever
to sing of my love for you.
Idolatry -- to make human love divine
and put it on par with God.
No, not idolatry, but identity,
for love and God are one
when love longs to be Forever.
O You who never created love,
but are Love, and Love-Forever,
gift me with Your sacred heart
to love You, and my beloved,
Forever, Forever.
Reflection:
With holy fear and trembling, lovers say they will love each other
forever. They dare, with their hair standing on end in fear, to use the
name of God as a pledge that their love will withstand anything that
might drag them apart, even death.
From the beginning, God wedded human love and God-love together as one
and the same -- even when human loving falls short of forever.
Gratefully, human love is awakened to its Godhood whenever such love
struggles to be forever.
The tree of love can withstand all storms, droughts and disasters when
its roots are entwined around the God-Stone at the center of the Earth.
Love's zero gravity is made stable by being thus grounded in Ground
Zero. Each time "Forever" is whispered in the darkness, it sends the
roots of love racing to encircle more tightly the Sacred Stone.
So anchored in Love, our loves can withstand the dry desert winds of
routine, the twisting tornadoes of emotional differences, infidelity
and workaday chaos.
Forever -- let us say it slowly, say it full of meaning, say it as one of the holy names of God.
From Psalms for Zero Gravity by Ed Hays