Love is All You Ask

You know what I need and what I want

I don't really need to ask

But because You love me

I am free to ask for anything

You shower me with goodness I don't deserve

You bless me even if I don't ask You to

Because You love me

I am new every single day

You know how to help Your people

You don't know how to discriminate

Because You love us all

Everything we need, You provide

What else is there for me to do or pray for?

You know everything, You give everything

Because You are love

All You ask is for me to love

To love those who are lost

To love those who are last

To love those who are least

To help and ask how I can help more

To give and ask what else I can give

To love and love even more

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Cecile Angela Belano Adriano Ilagan is Journals Coordinator of the Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Creative Work of the Loyola Schools. She joined Ateneo de Manila University in 2012. She is mom to four Ateneans: Sage, Cian, Kodi, and Q, wife to her longtime neighbor Sonny, and a student of PhD Media Studies at the University of the Philippines Diliman.