Above All Else...

Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, 
clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.   
Bear with each other and forgive one another
 if any of you has a grievance against someone. 
Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  
 And over all these virtues put on love, 
which binds them all together in perfect unity.

Col.3:12-14

Do we hunt and chase it

Ponder and embrace it

Does its law of liberty ease our stress?

Make us understanding

Patient, undemanding

Do we suffer for it without bitterness?

Does it author kindness

And sympathy’s blindness

Does it safeguard longing against jealousy?

Does its cheerful giving

Grant guidelines for living

Does it mold Today’s course of activity?

Does it, without ration

Fuel deep compassion

Does mercy instill in us its sacred call? 

Does it keep us holy

And honest and lowly

Tell me, is love our motive, above all

© Janet Martin