Oh, what a Love!

A beautiful meditation on divine grace and human devotion. Inspired by the ultimate example of selfless love, O, What a Love! explores the profound freedom we are given to choose our path, how that grace drives us to serve others, and how it beautifully mirrors the vulnerability and total commitment of marriage.

Oh, what a Love!

You made yourself nothing,

You made yourself freely available to me,

So comfortable I could feel to decide freely

To follow or deny you.

What a lover you are?

My Lord, my God.


That even before your hands shaped the cosmic dust,

You saw me in You.

Even then, you coerced me not to come to you;

You just came, you died,

You lifted up and conquered me.

Precious and honoured you called me in your sight.

When I was just a jar of clay,

Brittle and unshapeable,

You placed in me Your power enormous—

The self-giving love that keeps me wondering:

How amazing is your master-plan for eternal life?

The energy at work in me drives me to the poor,

The weak, and the vulnerable,

To be a light, to be the salt

In their dark and bland lives.


Oh, what a Love!

You made yourself nothing,

You made yourself freely available to me,

So comfortable I could feel to decide freely

To follow or deny you.

What a lover you are?

My Lord, my God.


When I see my bride—

Fearful, exciting, yet indescribably beautiful—

I learn from you, my good Lord.

I lay myself down at her mercy,

Making me a big zero,

So she can choose whom to follow.

Decision is yours, my dear;

I already chose you to be my only beloved wife.

Let your decision cast all doubts aside.


Oh, what a Love!

You made yourself nothing,

You made yourself freely available to me,

So comfortable I could feel to decide freely

To follow or deny you.

What a lover you are?

My Lord, my God.


Take me or deny me, I got no regrets.

To love you as my own itself is a big bonus.

I never knew I will catch a glimpse of my life in you—

The life I hoped to live,

The life I hope to live.

I openly declare: you're welcome, my life, into my life,

For I have no other love waiting along on the sidelines.


Oh, what a Love!

You made yourself nothing,

You made yourself freely available to me,

So comfortable I could feel to decide freely

To follow or deny you.

What a lover you are?

My Lord, my God.


Manoj and Shaper

To the Loving one. 

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