Love is Gain

Shattered Reflections

I stepped in the water…

And the reflection shattered as glass?

I stopped to ponder…

Why didn't it last?

I gave it my heart,

And it broke into thousands,

It tore me apart,

But I hold onto the seconds.

Love is pain,

Love is hurt,

Love is loss,

Love is worth.

I walked from the water,

but the shards clung to me still.

Every memory sharper

than the moment it was real.

It rushes back with a current,

With coals of guilt,

What I had not meant,

Still makes me wilt.

I gather what’s left,

though it cuts as I hold.

Love teaches in fragments

what the heart learns in full.

And though it breaks to know,

and though it burns,

I didn't let go—

Love is pain.

Love is hurt.

Love is loss.

Love is worth.

Rushing arranging

Spinning changing.

Growth is growing pains,

Dipping, skipping,

Waxing waning,

Love is loss and gains.

I don't let go,

But hold it still,

At times it is near

Against my will.

And though it is more than I know,

Love allows us to grow. Lord of Love,

grow me still;

Teach my trembling heart

to bend to Your will.

Where the waters once shattered,

let Your mercy renew—

Till the fragments shine softly,

and Your love seeps through.

You steady what’s fragile,

You gather what is broken;

Please rearrange my scattered,

redeem my forsaken.

And the heart I thought was ruined

finds its love renewed in You;

In remembrance of Your mercy,

even burdens lighten too—

For the pain and worth of Love

are the wounds You also knew Love is the reason You came,

Your Love is my Gain.

teach my trembling heart

to bend to you will

Love is the reason You came,

Your Love is my Gain.