Bloody Love

After the chocolate is relished

After the sugar crashes

After the love notes are tucked away

After the dried up roses are stuffed into the garbage


After the amazing food is clicked, eaten and digested

After the holiday clothes are washed and put away

After the best poses are liked and shared

After the memory of the sweetest kiss fades


When you're exhausted

When you're sick

When you're having the worst hair day because half of it seems to be on the bathroom floor


When you're lonely

When you're in a wretched mood

When your mind is so fogged up, you can't see a clear sentence coming out 


Who longs to spend time with you? 

Who gives you his whole attention? 

Who lavishes you with the costliest gift? 

Who pours out his heart in a long love letter? 

Who serves your best interests? 

Who waits for you with outstretched arms? 


Jesus

No one can love you like He does

No one can satisfy the deepest desires of your soul like He does


Jesus

There's nothing you can do to make Him love you more

There's nothing you can do to make Him love you less


For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.


Jesus, lover par excellence

Jesus, gift of the millennia

Jesus, your saviour who paid the high price so you wouldn't have to

Jesus, worth spending eternity with


Pack the past in the latest Amazon carton and chuck it away

Come today to Jesus

And begin anew

For the love of a lifetime and beyond

Jesus







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