(344-353) The Works of Love X
Conclusion
God's Love
In that God is love and love is conscience
We make our own adjudication
That God need judge us is just nonsense
By our own words, we achieve our condemnation
When against others we make accusations
And pray for punishment from above
We have spoken our self-denunciation
And violated the spirit of God's love
We know that love is not the question
In love's rigidity and mildness
Rigid when we're lost in justification
And quite mild when we feel forgiveness
"To let it be done for you
Just as you have believed"
In the rightness here, we see as true
How we can make ourselves bereaved
When we condemn another's faithlessness
Our condemnation is self attributive
When we can express love and forgiveness
We have to ourselves contributed
Like-to-like as it can be spoken
Means justice is a kind of echo
Love is God's circle when unbroken
On ourselves a goodness we can bestow
Love's reality exists in our inwardness
Where our works of love are not meritorious
We come to believe in grace and forgiveness
Because God's love is simply so glorious