This is how we know what love is
We have seen the way Love gave himself for us
And in the passion of this paradox where life is born in loss
We will love like him who loved at any cost


Trembling, awkward, hearts made out of clay
Our human frailties grew like grasses in field
But Love divine, pure unbounded wisdom
Tended us like vineyards bright and fragile
Tended joy no heart alone could yield

This is how we know what love is
We have seen the way Love gave himself for us
And in the passion of this paradox where life is born in loss
We will love like him who loved at any cost


Here you come, dressed as hope and counting out
Your promises like stars and like the sand
And here I come, asking if a dream has found me
Who would put a thing so lovely
Who put a thing so perfect in my hand