Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion

Love is reckless, not reason
Reason seeks a profit
Love comes on strong, consuming itself, unabashed.

Yet in the midst of suffering,
Love proceeds like a milestone
hard surfaced and straightforward

Having died to self-interest
it risks everything and asks for nothing
Love gambles away every gift God bestows.

Without cause God gave us Being;
Without cause, give it back again.
Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion.

Religion seeks grace and favor,
but those who gamble these away are God's favorites
for they neither put God to the test
nor knock at the door of gain and loss.