"True Love in Every Moment Praises God"
 Mechtild of Magdeburg:

True love in every moment praises God.
Longing love brings a sorrow sweet to the pure.
Seeking love belongs to itself alone.
Understanding love gives itself equally to all.
Enlightened love is mingled with the sadness of the world.
But selfless love bears an effortless fruit,
Working so quietly even the body cannot say how it comes and goes.

Taken from  “Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg”
edited and mildly modernized by Henry L. Carrigan Jr.
Paraclete Press ©1999, used by permission