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

Phil.2:1-4

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.