Tension is to be loved

Tension is to be loved,
when it is like a passing note,
to a beautiful, beautiful
chord.*

Tension is to be loved,
when it is like a thickening plot,
to a gut-wrenching, coming-of-age
redemption.

Tension is to be loved,
when it is like the dead of Winter,
bursting forth into the cacophony of
Spring.

Tension is to be loved,
when it is the price of usefulness**
that draws us out of self and towards
service.

*Sixpence None the Richer
**Tim Keller