This recent poem helped me to process the freedom intimacy brings when we offer ourselves to others fully. There are degrees of intimacy in every relationship, and God uses these experiences of human connection to bring us closer to Himself. Our faulty love is ultimately chained to His perfect love, yet so often our struggles with vulnerability, intimacy and trust come from damaged loves. Sometimes love can seem binding, or too neglectful, or elating--but whatever love we experience, it always carries a chain of commitment and memory, of self-discovery and self-knowledge, of enjoyment and the fruits of endurance. Loves chains are meant to ultimately bring freedom--what are the chains of like for you right now?
Response to A Homecoming by Wendell Barrey
all love is bondage.
chain
links clanking
memories
shaking their fist,
or the open palm receiving
lips
pressed in a kiss.
aching souls longing only for chains
to free
us
to
see ourselves.
i am glimpsing love
in one (a
slavery of becoming).
for freedom is indispensible
too
precious to spend
so
worth the savoring,
can you
look to a heart
whom
you would serve
without
a painful regret?
oh, to
be chained in love
is not loss to the longing soul—but its only life.
this is
our liberty—
to be loved well
to
share a life together,
the
only true pleasure
a
fragmented world
can
offer.
so
won’t you sit and sip
and eat with me
with
love’s heavy chains upon us
and
the freedom to stay
and
never leave?
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