Perfect circles

After I John 4:13-5:5

Life: to love.

Love: to live

in God, to live

in God: to live

in love.

A perfect, the perfect

circle enclosing us

in a bond unbroken.

To live in love

in a world such as this

equals conflict, surely,

hardship, possibly,

persecution, likely,

and death, inevitably,

death, at least, to this world.

If I and we can live in love,

as he did,

then conflict and hardship

and persecution and death

will come, another

perfect circle.

Photograph by Todd Quackenbush via Unsplash. Used with permission.