Tuesday, February 11, 2025

On Learning Love's Darling Price



Last week love's privileges and duties pressed to the forefront
 so much so that poetry needed to take a quiet break. 
Part of me softly mourned the loss of a sister who checked in most days 
to see what was happening on my 'porch' and on a week like last week,
 most surely she would send a text. something like 'is everything okay? missing your posts'. 
At church on Sunday morning a friend mentioned that it was a quiet week on my blog?? 
and I told her why and also how special her checking in was.💝🙏
 Later another friend also encouraged me, not to fret about writing,
 but to be content when time does not permit! 
It means a lot when someone cares about what is going on in our little worlds, doesn't it?!
 A reminder for me to look around to see who I could/should be checking in on.

Whatever our 'little worlds' hold, of good or ill,
true joy and peace begin with surrender to God 
who loved us so much He gave His only begotten Son, 
 that whosoever believes in Him
will not perish but have everlasting life.
 John 3:16

On Sat. night when I returned home
a loving friend had left a thoughtful gift at my door!
Thoughtfulness and kindness are gifts
money cannot buy, but sometimes
money purchases very touching and precious mementos
like this....





Here's to a new day of learning love's darling price...

True love is like a priceless gift we need to give to find
Love's Greatest Gift, God gave to save the souls of humankind
To give us an example we should learn/yearn to imitate
To teach us how we ought to love before it is too late

My sad record of failure would/should unfurl a ghastly noose  
But God, because He gave His Son, has cut death's lariat loose 
He gave His Word so we may know the truth that sets us free
To love Him first and then each other with humility   

Ah, pity all who look for love but cannot find its key
Who sift the dust of this world for love's immortality
Rather than reaching for the Gift only God can provide 
Then finding in love's giving love's longing is satisfied 
   
Ah, pray we endeavor to be at love's high beck and call
Because God, who so loves us gave Himself for one and all
To equip us with what/Who we need to learn love's darling price
How giving due glory to God yields living sacrifice

© Janet Martin 

John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. 
As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 
/ By this everyone will know that you are My disciples,
 if you love one another.”

1 John 4:7-11
Beloved, let us love one another, because love comes from God. 
Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 
/ Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
 / This is how God’s love was revealed among us: 
God sent His one and only Son into the world, 
so that we might live through Him. ...

Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride,
 but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. /
 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, 
but also to the interests of others.





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