From the recording Our Love is All I Have
OUR LOVE IS ALL I HAVE
Introduction and Song Description
By E. Craig Hendricks
There comes a moment in every sincere spiritual life when prayer becomes wonderfully simple.
The endless list of requests falls silent. The desire to understand every mystery fades. Even gratitude, as beautiful as it is, gives way to something deeper.
What remains is love.
Our Love Is All I Have was born during one of those quiet mornings of prayer. As I sat in communion with the Holy Mother, thanking her for the countless blessings and miracles that have unfolded throughout my life, a gentle question arose within me: Do I love You because of Your gifts, or simply because I love You?
The answer arrived not as words, but as a profound realization.
If every blessing were taken away... if every miracle ceased... if tomorrow brought only silence... my heart would still turn toward Love.
For Love is not a response to what we receive.
Love is our deepest identity.
Then another realization emerged. What gift could I possibly offer the One who created galaxies, stars, oceans, and every living soul? Nothing I possess belongs solely to me. Everything has first been given.
Everything... except one precious offering.
The love that God has placed within my own heart.
That love becomes my only true gift because it is freely returned.
This song is a prayer of that return.
Musically, Our Love Is All I Have blends the intimacy of neo-folk, the emotional sweep of symphonic rock, the storytelling warmth of Americana, and the reverence of a spiritual ballad. It begins as a quiet morning conversation and gradually blossoms into an orchestral declaration that every soul longs to make.
Its closing words express the deepest truth I have come to know:
My heart is Your heart.
Your heart is mine.
Our hearts beat as One.
May this song remind us that beyond every blessing, beyond every miracle, beyond every word we could ever speak, Love itself is enough.
For in the end, our love is all we have to give... because it was Love that first gave itself to us.
Lyrics
OUR LOVE IS ALL I HAVE
(Neo-Folk • Symphonic Rock • Americana • Spiritual Ballad)
E. Craig Hendricks
[Verse 1]
Before the morning found the hills,
before the robins sang,
I came into the quiet place
where only Love remains.
No list of dreams to ask of You,
no bargains left to make,
Only this grateful heart of mine
awakening in Your grace.
[Verse 2]
Thank You for the hidden streams
that carried me along,
For every unseen miracle
that taught my soul its song.
Yet if tomorrow all were gone,
if every gift should cease,
Still I would come to sit with You
inside Your perfect peace.
[Pre-Chorus]
How can my voice
describe what has no end?
Every word becomes too small
before the Love You send.
[Chorus]
I love You... I love You...
These are the only words I know.
I love You... I love You...
Deeper than the rivers flow.
Take this heart, it's all I own,
every breath and every prayer.
Your Love is all I have to give,
because Your Love is living here.
[Verse 3]
I wondered for a fleeting breath
if gratitude might hide
The simple truth that I love You,
not only for Your light.
If every blessing slipped away,
if silence filled the sky,
Still my heart would turn to Yours;
Love itself is why.
[Bridge] (Symphonic Build)
What gift could I ever bring
to the One who fashioned stars?
Silver fades. Kingdoms fall.
Time forgets emperors all.
But Love remembers every soul.
Love outlives eternity.
So I return the only treasure
You first entrusted unto me.
[Final Chorus] (Full Orchestra & Choir)
I love You... I love You...
Beyond what any words can say.
I love You... I love You...
Every dawn and every day.
Take this heart, forever Yours,
there has never been a line.
[Outro] (Quiet)
My heart is Your heart.
Your heart is mine.
Our hearts beat as One.
Our hearts beat as One.
Our hearts beat...
...as One.