Love Of Another Kind

Rich Mullins builds this song around a contrast between what's commonly said about love and what he's actually found: "they say love is cruel, they say love is rather fragile, but I've found in You a love of another kind."

"They say love will bring ya hurt, I say love will give ya healing, 'cause I found a cure in a love of another kind" keeps the same structure through each verse — a common claim about love, answered directly rather than argued against in the abstract.

"I feel You closer than a brother, making it clear that the love You give is like no other" borrows Proverbs' own description of a friend who sticks closer than a brother, applied here to God directly rather than to a human friendship.

"They say love will pass, I say love is never ending, 'cause in You I have a love of another kind" closes each chorus on the same confident correction — not dismissing what's commonly said about love, just insisting it doesn't apply to this particular love.