A song I wrote a few years ago. An antidote to “All you need is love”:
The words:
Love is patient, love is kind; love forgives time after time.
Never proud or envious,
forgetting wrongs, love always trusts.
Chorus
For God is love, who took our sin
Upon a cross of pain so grim.
A gift of love so great and pure:
To live in Love for evermoreLove is constant, love always hopes; slow to anger, love never boasts.
Greatest gift of the Father’s heart, fulfilled one day, now seen in part.Love must guide us on our way, as we love those we meet each day.
Loving Him who first loved us; forgiving all as he forgives.
Yes, God is Love – Agape. But not the low-Agape minestrone of Storge, Philia, and Eros, often heavily spiced with Venus (adding that fifth ingredient to CS Lewis’s four), that the word “love” too often cooks up in the mind of today’s post-Christian neo-pagans.