Unconditional Love
I prayed to God long ago,
I believe He hears my prayers.
My life was filled with many things,
but something wasn’t there.
I once had dreamed long ago,
a vision of fair delight.
A woman found me in my dream,
sometime in the night.
I had to know her.
She left me with a kiss,
a disappearing sensation
as the sun was rising.
I lived each day not knowing her,
but somehow I knew she was there.
I would hold on to hope
and try not to despair.
So much time goes by
many things change.
Rough edges are softer
What was missing is the same.
My God has told me
through His words how to love.
Many acts of wisdom, kindness and care.
My heart still held on to the hope
of an impossible dream,
to love unconditionally
the woman I’d never seen.
He works all things together
for the good
of those who love the Lord.
He blessed me beyond my imagination
or any dream of my mind.
He brought us together
and has taught me how to love.
With words of truth and wisdom
that only comes from above.
I need His help every day,
to love you as I should.
With a love meant for us
put in motion long ago.
Unconditionally loving you
is what I want to do.
I’ve studied the words of wisdom
that are alive and true.
But the source of love isn’t in us.
It comes from His hand.
We are blessed with each other,
let us love with no demands.
This is the poem that reaches furthest back in time. Before Priya, before the embrace, before the battle — there was a prayer, and a dream, and a man who held on to hope across years he could not see the end of. Scott does not present this as coincidence. He presents it as providence. This poem is the theological and emotional center of the entire collection.
I actually had that dream. A woman came to me in the night and left me with a kiss at sunrise and I spent years carrying the feeling of it without knowing what it meant. When Priya came into my life I recognized something. I am not a man who believes in coincidence. I believe God prepares things. This poem is my testimony that He prepared this.