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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

More Contemplations on Love



Love, be glorious as a sunrise
Beauty void of vanity...




Love, be glorious as a sunrise
Beauty void of vanity
Newness in spite of spent ages
Hope's gentle humility

Love, be lovely as a flower
Broken bud to beaming laud
Blooming where our feet are planted
Giving all glory to God

Love, be like a ship, seaworthy
Fit to weather stormy gale
Trust the Captain for the journey
He is good and will not fail

Love, be like a lilting fountain
Love be like a joyful song
Love be like the One who suffered
Though He committed no wrong

Love, be like a fearless soldier
Love, be like a warrior’s shield
Like a vineyard or an orchard
Gleaming with opulent yield

Love, be sobriety's laughter
Not the wino's loosened tongue
Be a role model, trustworthy
A kind mother to the young

Love, be like a mighty ocean
Love, be like a little seed
Stun us with the potent power
Of small scattered word and deed

Love, be like an earnest offering
On the altar of today
Labour not for acquisitions
That in death will fade away

Love, do not become disheartened
When the call would cast thee down
Remember the One who showed us
First the cross and then the crown

© Janet Martin

Therefore if you have any encouragement 
from being united with Christ, 
if any comfort from his love,
 if any common sharing in the Spirit,
 if any tenderness and compassion, 
then make my joy complete by being like-minded, 
having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 
  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.
  Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
  not looking to your own interests 
but each of you to the interests of the others.

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