Love does not promise Easy Street
Or lap of luxuries
But pulls plans from beneath our feet
To bring us to our knees
Love, though a many-splendored thing
Kindling desire’s sighs
Soon startles dreamers with the sting
Of ashes in our eyes
Love hones hearts to humility
With others first in mind
In the face of hostility
Love is patient and kind
No matter what thrills and delights
It will not be enough
Until we set our keenest sights
On learning how to love
The lifelong scholarship of love
Would drain all grin and grit
But for the faultless Promise of
The One who authored it
By loving grace and discipline
He helps us all life through
To wear the shoes that we are in
With purpose, glad and true
Then, when the gold of love runs blue
And snuffs the wishing star
Love is not something that we do
But something that we are
© Janet Martin
Col.3:14-15
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.
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