We Cannot Make Love

Today I am making garden-planting plans! Other things made this week?Order from chaos! Birthday cake and dinner memories... ...and of course, coffee!!😊 We are always making, aren't we?!!Making plans, meals, order, things, memories, coffee... But, we cannot make love...And say, 'see, here it is', to set in front of someonelike a trophy to display upon a shelfWe cannot make it like a Thing and say,'This is a Love'So, where does love come from;This 'Thing' everyone needs and cannever get too much of...?Where is this Fount from whence all Goodness flows?This 'Thing' that never fails,Only the lack of it... We cannot make loveCan’t bake it like a cakeCan’t steep it like a cup of teaTo soothe a bellyache Can’t mold it out of clayCan't forge it out of steelTo build a bridge to span the gapTwixt heart-to-heart appeal Can't cut it from a pageOr order it onlineCan't woo it from whispering leavesOr pluck it from a vine Or buy it from a shopOr shake it from a boughLike red apples in autumn-timeCan't milk it from a cow Or hatch it from an eggOr catch it like a fishOr carve it out of balsam woodOr mix it in a dish Or pull it from a boxOr paint it, like fine artOr compose it with pen and inkTo lure/coax it from a heart Can't wish it from a starOr press it from a grapeOr force it from bud into bloom Can't knit it like a cape Or weave it like a matCan't earn it by hard toilOr pour and smooth it like concrete Or dig it from the soil Ah, where can we find love?High on a dusty shelf?Or, do we start to find it whenWe stop living for Self Love is life's greatest joyLove is life's greatest griefLove is the evidence of GodThat triumphs unbelief No, we cannot make loveThe way we make a pieLove is the heart/part of God in usThat only fools deny Nobody has seen GodOnly His majestyMade manifest among us throughThe likes of you and me Love; oft misunderstoodLove, ink of poet's laud The Great Equalizer of boastBecause love is from God Janet Martin 1 John 4:7-12Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.