Imagine...

Imagine…

If we smiled instead of frowned

And gave each time we took

And for our questions found

Our answers in The Book

And we’d say yes to love

And we’d say no to hate

And oh, instead of guns

Imagine if we prayed

…And traded our fear

For hope and faith and trust

Imagine if Belief

Would banish doubt in us

Imagine if patience

Would calm spite's angry sea

And we would think before we speak

How wiser words would be

Imagine if we wore

Gentle humility

And filled with kindness every pore

Where greed and pride bully

Imagine we’d forgive

Each bitter grudge with grace

Wouldn’t this world where we live

Be such a better place?

© Janet Martin

 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the LORD has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

— Colossians 3:12-14 

Can you imagine the love that would pour forth from each day if these verses were put on as you put on your clothes in the morning? That's what Kara asks us to pause and ponder...