Exodus 1:8-22; Psalm 124: 1-8; Matthew 10:34-11:1

you come
with
a sword
sharpened
on Truth
and cut
through
with surgical
precision
to a heart
that understands
a piercing
love
that places
no other
above
the source
of its heartbeat
and breath
and carries
all suffering
back
as a gift
a cross
to bear

Does your heart understand a piercing love?