“Your Stubborn Love”—A Prayer for December 15, 2020
On days like today, God,
I wonder. I wonder how
you keep seeking us out,
and more than that, how
you keep choosing to hang out with us,
to be counted as one of us,
not just to love us but to identify as one of us.
We are capable of such graceful beauty
and such crude rottenness—both, minute by minute—
and in all honesty, I would have given up on us
long ago.
It is your determination, your
sheer, persistent, relentless,
determination to be with us,
that boggles my mind.
And in moments like this,
I am grateful to recall
that your stubborn love
does not depend on my approval
or understanding. It never has.
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