Lamar Howell's Weblog

Love God with all your heart,

with all your guts, with all your sweat

and every muscle and pound you pile on

with every rustle and sound of nylon

Love God with every pulse

and even the slightest results.

Love God with your very sinew,

with everything that’s  in you

Love God with your routine

With your highest dream

With every flush of blood to the head

With every rush of adrenal gland

With all you grasp with a calloused-hand

Love Him with every sigh and gasp

And grunt uttered through clenched-teeth 

When your forearms shudder and your whole body shakes

Love God with every added weight

Love God till your veins extrude

and your brain exudes endorphines

and your will even more bends

towards God’s design.

Love God

But don’t love Him sweetly, dutifully,

weakly, beautifully –

Love God tough and do it

till you’re righteously cut,

morally rock-hard,

willfully steel-purposed

and on, and on, and on . . .