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Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Love; The Journey


So much for love to hope for, pray for, and celebrate!
Love is not a feeling, 
but a fulltime labor of compassion, courage, correction and grace!
Love is ever learning and never lazy.
Love is God poured out, in/ through us!
His  loving grace is sufficient for the charge!

1 John 4:7-12
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, 
and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 
8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 
9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, 
that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 
10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us 
and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 
12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, 
God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

1 Cor.13:7-8
Love...bears all things, 
believes all things, 
hopes all things, 
endures all things.
Love never fails.


I believe in loving the journey 
but an apt twist to this quote would be
Love is the Journey


Love hurts with those who hurt
And laughs with those who laugh
Its noble motive seeks the worth
Of fellowman’s behalf

It hopes and prays and cares
And does not weigh the price
But with a heart of mercy bears
The yoke of sacrifice

Love does not seek its own
Agendas; love is kind
It sets a stable stepping stone
For those foll’wing behind

It heeds earnest rebuke
Love does not boast or lie
Unprejudiced, humble and true
Love measures thought’s reply

Love mourns with those who mourn
And sings with those who sing
Love shares the rose and bears the thorn
Without self-pitying

Love lights joy’s candlestick
Love never, never fails
When grief’s sickle cuts to the quick
God, who IS love prevails

Incarnate and Enough
The Vine sustains the branch
Apart from God, love is not love
But hell's hopeless romance

Love transcends circumstance
Mercy's unthwarted grail
Outpours, in constant sustenance
The love that cannot fail

So, Love the journey Here
With humble, holy laud
Because love is the journey, dear
Back to love's birthplace; 
God

© Janet Martin

John 15:5
“I am the vine; you are the branches. 
If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; 
apart from me you can do nothing.

1 Cor.13:13
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. 
But the greatest of these is love.



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