For you.

There's only one thing left that I want to say
as a fitting end to this session /
a foundation built for this new season:

It's hesed.

Do you know it?

In the words of one author I read,
"hesed is driven, not by duty or legal obligation,
but by a bone-deep commitment--
a loyal, selfless love that motivates a person to do
voluntarily what no one has a right to expect or ask of them.
They have the freedom to act or to walk away
without the slightest injury to their reputation.
Yet they willingly pour themselves out for the good of someone else."

It's faithful love in action,
persistent unconditional tenderness,
kindness, mercy, love;
a covenant relationship of seeking for the other
with a loyalty some would call radical,
with no matter what.

You didn't ask me for it,
I know that.
And you don't owe me a thing--
I did it on my own.

But it's foundational,
and its been put in place already.

I'll leave it there.
For you.