Lift up
your life
as loving
sacrifice
held like
a cup
in your
hands
and that
one purpose,
poised and
deliberate,
shall by
His merits
sustain you,
until
nothing
remains
but the pure
distillation
of all you
would most
willingly see
accomplished,
when,
all hurts
healed and
all hardness
at last
annealed,
you become
your offering
—the finally
valid fulfillment
of the heart's
one absolute
pledge.
