The Love of God

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The love of God is earlier than man,

Present to us before we were to it.
The love of God sustains and nourishes
And puts in being what had never been
Save that it was first loved, and being loved

Had being at all. The love of God comes down,
And walks among his creatures as their friend,
And dies among his children in their rage.
The love of God has journeyed into hell
And all once closed is opened by that love.

The love of God stands fearsome over our heads.
The love of God has entered in our breasts;
And there, the love of God will dwell, where he
Was from the first the center of ourselves,
For all things turn about the love of God.

~James Matthew Wilson