The burden of Love

The burden of Love 
 
God is Love, You say.  Before I met You,
I had trouble believing in God.  You know the story –
 
How can God exist with so much suffering in the world?
so much cruelty and injustice –
 
with death separating us all in the end?
But after many years with You, my question is:
 
How can there not be a God?
With so much suffering, injustice, cruelty and death?
 
How can there not be a God
to ultimately balance the scales of Justice,
 
to restore Love and Mercy, to reunite us
with all the loved ones we have so innocently lost?
 
The doubters say religion is a crutch, but I ask them,
‘Who do you know who is not crippled?
 
Show me one heart that has not borne the burden of Love.’
O Beloved, I believe in the Eternal because You became flesh
 
then dropped that perfect body to reappear within the human heart.
How much closer to us has this incarnation brought You!
 
O child of God, Jesus is not hiding somewhere behind the moon.
His sandals can be found outside the door of every humble heart.