Happiness Worth Living

Oh God, what hidden splendour

Presses against the gates

Where in buds of surrender

Full bloom of blessing waits

The heart is like a bower

That cannot bloom until

We submit to the Power

Of the Creator’s will

Then when Heart yields its hardness

The bud begins to brim

Unfolding from the darkness

The glorious Light of Him

Where what we thought we wanted

Falls like a withered leaf

After the seed God planted

(or, after the will God granted)

Surrenders to its Chief

…and finds within love’s giving

Life’s beauty, sweet and kind

Where happiness worth living

Keeps others first in mind

© Janet Martin

 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, 

I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, 

and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, 

but have not love, I am nothing.

If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, 

  but have not love, I gain nothing. 

1 Cor.13:1-3

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, 

but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.

Each of you should look not only to your own interests,

 but also to the interests of others. 

Phil. 2:3-4 

I know I shared this song recently but in my own life /love

it bears replaying/repeating!