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Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Let's Love Each Other





Let’s take a gentle pondering to re-evaluate
Why loving one another is so much better than hate
For hate is like a poison that kills joy and happiness
But love is like a hymn that lifts its voice to praise and bless
And love is like a big bear-hug but hate is full of pain
Love is patient and kind but hate is jealous, spiteful, vain
Love meets people right where they are with tender sympathy
Hate hopes the worst for others and ignores their misery
Love goes the second mile without ever missing a beat
Hate doesn’t even stoop to help the fallen to their feet
Love heals, hate wounds, love smiles, hate jeers, love listens, hate condemns
Love does not seek itself, hate does; love waits while hate demands
Love gives and gives and finds fulfillment as mercies out-pour
Hate takes and takes but cannot find what it is looking for
Love loves at all cost and builds up, hate tears down and destroys
Hate celebrates another's troubles, love celebrates joys
Love fills the heart with hope and peace, hate is full of torment
Love forgives but hate seeks revenge with self-pity’s lament
Love is from God for God is love, hate crucified our Lord
Let’s love each other while we can for rich is its reward

© Janet Martin

2 John 2:9-11
 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[b] is still in the darkness.  
 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[c] lives in the light, 
and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.  
 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness.
 They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
 

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