{"id":7029025,"date":"2026-08-05T19:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/love-was-god-life-and-beauty\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:56:10","slug":"love-was-god-life-and-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7029025","title":{"rendered":"Love Was &#8211; God, Life, and Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought Love was<br \/>A sideways feeling, my heart reaching out<br \/>Like a flower for the pane of sunlight<br \/>Like a diver lunging\u00a0for that\u00a0sapphire gulp of air<br \/>Like my mother\u2019s\u00a0hand at the bearded stranger\u2019s glance<br \/>Like the warm doorway back\u00a0home when the twilight falls<br \/><em>\u201cNo, no,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>I told myself, <em>\u201cit is time to grow up \u2013 it is time to stand. Otherwise you\u2019ll fall\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought Love was<br \/>An upward feeling, my eyes taking it all\u00a0in<br \/>Like a sunset bursting into its final\u00a0glory<br \/>Like a star-cathedral in its myriad pinpricks of stately pale fire<br \/>Like a tree battered\u00a0and savaged, but still doggedly standing<br \/>Like a hand firmly drawing you up when hope itself has been lost<br \/><em>\u201cNo, no,\u201d<\/em> I told myself, <em>\u201cthe field\u00a0is level now \u2013 it is up to you. Don\u2019t go looking for anyone to help\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I thought Love was<br \/>An outward feeling, my arms reaching around<br \/>Like forgiveness coming unannounced around a sharp corner<br \/>Like a friend\u2019s hug, silent and\u00a0warm as a beam of summer sun<br \/>Like a\u00a0mantle of thick jade\u00a0pasture draped on\u00a0the curves of a quiet valley\u00a0<br \/>Like a forbidding\u00a0hand laid\u00a0on your shoulder, but you look back into eyes that heal<br \/><em>\u201cNo, no,\u201d<\/em> I told myself, <em>\u201cso weary of looking round \u2013 they are never coming. Stay here\u00a0in the shadows yet\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I knew it was\u00a0Love when I saw Him:<br \/>He was reaching out anguished, His arms pinned sideways<br \/>Palms shattered with rusted iron<br \/>He was reaching upward\u00a0toward Heaven, His chest heaving for the precious air<br \/>His feet pierced by nails I had seen before<br \/>(Shutting the door of eternal life in my face, and rightly) He was wrapping the world in a dying embrace, murmuring: <em>\u201cOf them which Thou gavest\u00a0Me have I lost none.\u201d<\/em><br \/>And like a child I went running for Him, crying out, <em>\u201cLord, remember me when You\u00a0come into Your kingdom!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeremy Vogan, Spring 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo credit: Monserrat, anuqmxx <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought Love wasA sideways feeling, my heart reaching outLike a flower for the pane of sunlightLike a diver lunging\u00a0for that\u00a0sapphire gulp of airLike my mother\u2019s\u00a0hand at the bearded stranger\u2019s glanceLike the warm doorway back\u00a0home when the twilight falls\u201cNo, no,\u201d\u00a0I told myself, \u201cit is time to grow up \u2013 it is time to stand. 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