TIME AND LOVE ARE GIVEN

Before the stars learned how to burn
Before the clocks learned how to turn
Before the names, before the living
Two great gifts were already given

Already given

Time and love were always there
Breath in the body
Light in the air

Time and love
Time and love

Not possessions
Not things to own
Not little kingdoms
Not a throne
Not to own
Not a throne

They were given
Given

Time is not what passes away
Time is what is offered each day
A cup in the hand
A door in the wall
A seed in the dark
A name in the call

Time is given
Time is given

Love is not the thrill of a spark
Not just a fever
Not just the dark
Love is what remains when the glow
Learns how to stay
Learns how to grow

Love is given
Love is given

Time is what love spends to appear
To touch the eye
To reach the ear
To feed the child
To hold the line
To kneel in grief
To make the sign

Time is what love spends
Time is what love spends

If you give time to love
It becomes devotion

If you give space to love
It becomes a home

If you give breath to love
It becomes a chorus

If you give life to love
It becomes your own

Time and love are given
What we give to love
Becomes eternal

Love Eternal
Love Eternal

Love happens in the vanishing too
In what falls through
In what slips from view
In the fleeting touch
In the passing face
In the almost-lost
In the leaving trace

Love in the vanishing
Love in the vanishing

The present trembles
The moment thins
Still love enters
Still love begins
Right where the instant cannot stay
Love plants forever in one brief day
One brief day

I know what time is
Until I’m asked
I know what love is
Until it’s tasked
But when love must labor
When love must live
Then we discover
What it means to give
What it means to give

Time is the rhythm by which life organizes itself
Life organizes
Heartbeats
Tides
Sleep cycles
Breath

Rhythm
Rhythm
Rhythm

Milk let down
Seeds opening
Bodies healing
Children growing
Worlds revolving
Old wounds softening

Rhythm of life
And love

Love is the mystery of becoming
Becoming
Becoming

Love organizes relation like no other force
It bends the hard road from its brutal course
It gathers the broken
It widens the gate
It teaches the early
It outlasts the late

Love organizes
Love organizes

Love is not merely a feeling felt
Love is the fire by which selves melt
Love is the labor of making room
Love’s power unfolds in the womb
Love holds our hand all the way to the tomb
Make room for love
Make room

Give space to love!
We must give time to love
Time to love!

We must give space to love
Space to love!

We must give breath to love
Breath to love!

We must give song to love
Song to love!

Time and love are given
What we give to love
Becomes eternal

Time is the cost of incarnation
The cost of incarnation

Time!
To enter flesh
To enter form
To enter winter
To enter storm
To enter hunger
To enter birth
To enter body
To enter earth
To enter earth
To enter earth
To enter love!

Love is the courage to remain
To remain through grief
To remain through fear
To remain when the end
Feels terribly near
Remain in love
Remain in love

Time and love are not earned
Not earned
Not bought
Not conquered
Not taught by power
Not by power

Time and love are given
What we give to love
Becomes eternal
Eternal!

Time is what love spends
To become visible
Visible!

Give it time
Give it space
Give it breath
Give it grace

What we give to love
Becomes eternal

Time is not what passes
Time is what is given

Love is not what is felt
Love is what is given time
Given time

And what we give to love
Becomes eternal

Spend your time wisely
Give it to love
Give it to love
Give it to love

Description
Time and Love Are Given is a luminous cosmological offering song—part creation hymn, part devotional teaching, part ethical instruction on incarnation, mortality, rhythm, and the sacred economy of attention. It begins before stars and clocks, asserting that time and love are not possessions or achievements but primordial gifts already present before naming, before life, before ownership. From there, it unfolds a profound thesis: time is not merely what passes, but what is offered; and love is not merely what is felt, but what is given time. In the epic opera, Pupazzo Universo, this is one of the clearest songs of sacred relational ontology—revealing time as the medium through which love becomes visible, audible, embodied, and enduring. It turns devotion into temporal generosity and teaches that what we give to love becomes eternal.