How???

How did you do it Lord?

You lived in peaceful, wonderful perfection!

How did you decide you could

Come into the mean squalor of our world?

How did you, who knew no curse

Willingly take that which was ours?

Wear those thorns? Bear our hatred?

Carry a cross that did not belong to you?

How did the maker of life abundant

Submit to the violence of death?

Which was never yours to taste?

There was nothing in us endearing enough

To make you want to give that gift!

It came from you alone!

The compassion that saw us, 

The love that drove you -

Was not because of anything we are. 

It was just because that is who you are. 

Forgive us Lord for not seeing

The immenseness of that move!

For trivialising the most selfless gift of all!

We cannot see the darkness in us

Till we see it in light of you.

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