Seventy times Seven

So good to see you

It’s been a while

I always go away but can’t stay long

Though I try

Seventy times seven

I go away

Yet You just don’t leave, like it’s not in You to be that way.

                No doubt there’s pain

                Before embrace

                When I spit upon your face

And  yet you whisper my child that’s just how my cross tastes

Seventy times Seven is how love is made

And I find that kind of love in the arms of

This man’s embrace

Always staying round even though seventy times seven I break

And he’s there to make sure that my pieces

Don’t get away

And to  gently lift me up to my Maker

to be remade

                and though there’s pain

                in his face

                when I refrain from his embrace

he gently whispers seventy times seven is how love is made

                                And so I’m free to be

                        And I’m free to fail

                        Im free to flee

But seventy times seven I am compelled

                        To stay, to stay

                Each time we falter

            Let’s believe

            Seventy times seven Christ alters

            To set us free

            And when one of us would walk out

            Let’s be brave

            Knowing love may not be natural

            But it is made

                                And so we’re free to be

                        And we’re free to fail

                        And we’ll be free to flee

But seventy times seven we’ll be compelled

                        To stay, to stay

To forgive and be forgiven seventy times seven is how love is made