Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reason. Show all posts

Saturday, March 17, 2018

The Perfect Motivator For Everything We Do


 Love is patient, love is kind. 
It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, 
it is not easily angered, 
it keeps no account of wrongs.

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

What excellent persuasion
Motivates me and you
When love becomes the reason
For all we say and do

How soft a season scatters
The everyday of lives
Then tucks its tender tatters
Into Bygone’s archives

…and all that really matters
In daily here to there
Is what we did for others
To show we love and care

Then be not long despondent
When weary of its ‘ask
Love makes each role resplendent
Regardless of its task

…and makes most noble victors
From earth’s lowliest lot
If we live to love others
With everything we’ve got

With all that we can muster
Let's lift love's beacon high
And imitate Love's Author 
The Lord of earth and sky

© Janet Martin

 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, 
but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."
Mark 10:45

I often think of/listen to the song below, when someone passes on...

 

...and another beautiful 'love' song!



Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Reason Versus Feeling...



 “Natural affection only, of all my sentiments, has permanent power over me. Reason, and not Feeling, is my guide…”  Mr. St. John in the book Jane Eyre

Reason reprimands my want
Feeling vexes Reason
Thought, caught in between the taunt
Of goodness and treason

What I should, Reason would do
But bold interjection
Swaddles Feeling with excuse
And hand-foot objection

Nature’s law is kind because
It caters to Feeling
Reason causes us to pause
To sounder appealing

Feeling is a flighty wind
Never out of season
On one hand its change of mind
But on the other, Reason

Sometimes Reason tests me sore
In life’s wheeling-dealing
A vexatious tug-of-war
With the roar of Feeling

But to Reason without Feeling
Were bloodless affection
Let the two then mingle keenly
Rendering me human

© Janet Martin