Love Does Not Promise Easy Street...

 

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.