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.