If Only

If only You hold me tight and firm

And Your protection You confirm,

Challenges life brings I can face

Boldly, blessed with Your grace.

Only then can I say I love this life

Despite all the surrounding strife.

I can admit this life’s a precious gift

Only if into Your arms me You lift,

Cradling me there, warm, secure,

Of Your protection entirely sure,

And when You take me from here,

Fuse me into You forever, my Dear,

May I into You so irrevocably merge

That from there I won’t ever emerge,

Never again to a body-mind confined,

Never as a separate being again defined.