Love; All We Need...More Of

Love is patient, love is kind

Keeping others first in mind

No matter what lies behind

Love has no regrets

Always faithful, always true

Always right for me and you

Where, no matter what we do

Love forgives its debts

Keeps no record of the wrong

Love is kind and suffers long

Always trustworthy and strong

For love never fails

Never seeks revenge with spite

Never gives up the good fight

Never darkness, always Light

Hope’s wind in our sails

Love is gentle, bold, yet meek

Love will turn the other cheek

Love will always seek to speak

Words worth living for

Love walks secret second miles

In the face of fear, love smiles

Love gives reason to life’s whiles

Love needs nothing more

© Janet Martin

Rock Solid; Love Never Fails

In equals shares God grants today

His power undeterred

Evil will always have its say

But not the final Word

Fear is a demon not from God

In whom we ought to trust

The ignorance that fools applaud

Will reckon with The Just

Then when we cry, what can we do

Where evil touts its plan

The age-old answer remains true

In, 'love your fellowman'

All else but Love is doomed to fail

God in the end will prove

His way is indomitable

And all will fail but Love

© Janet Martin

 Love must be sincere.  

Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. 

Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. 

Outdo yourselves in honoring one another.…

Rom.12:9-10 

Scripture does not say 'detest who is evil, but what is evil'

We are called to 'hate the sin and love the sinner'

just as God loves us!

("A new command I give you: Love one another. 

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.)

John 13:34

1 Timothy 1:5
The goal of our instruction is the love that comes from a pure heart, 

a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.

Matthew 5:44
But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Romans 13:10
Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.


Love never fails. 
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; 
where there are tongues, they will be stilled; 
where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Cor.13:8

A Monday Morning Love Song/Prayer

 

Oh, keep us kind and humble, Lord; love has no in between

And keep the Prize we strive toward something man has not seen

My, but the mouth is skilled at soothing guilt with verbose art

Forgetful often, that you see the intent of the heart

Lord, give us love that does not seeks its own indulgent way

But stir in us surrender's goal to serve You every day

Give us the peace that passes understanding as we yield

Entrusting to Your perfect love those things not yet revealed

The spirit is a willing courtier, it boasts great plan

The flesh is weak; its choice the voice that exposes the man

Do not be wise in your own eyes; the ancient proverb warns

But fear the Lord, (the One who wore not roses, but the thorns)

Love is patient and kind and does not seek its own delight

It does not count the cost but makes its boast Your grace and might

Lord, until faith is sight make us a vessel in Your hands

Fulfill through us the Love that folly oft misunderstands

Anoint each breath we take with faith's earnest humility
Lord, with each step make us aware of that last Destiny
How Moment is the module that transports Undying Soul
Toward the place where Perfect Love unveils the holy Whole

© Janet Martin

The True-love Challenge;

 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. 
Love takes no pleasure in evil,
but rejoices in the truth.…
1 Cor.13:4-6

Un-expectation's Delight

 The coast was not clear for cross-country skiiing today,

but rather like a choppy sea...Gorgeous!

Surprised by God, His artistry so often unexpected

Yet, if we look we surely see His grandeur interjected

Where often, off the beaten path and lesser traveled places

His tender mercy makes us laugh with unexpected graces

The laureate of loveliness delights us with pure wonder

And tends to mankind’s happiness with Masterstrokes of splendor

Where none can satisfy the eye like the God of creation

Where none can awe the heart with art like the God of salvation

© Janet Martin

As Love Is Our Witness...

As Love is our witness

Worship cannot hide

God of forgiveness

Forgive foolish pride

Forgive the falsehood

We try to disguise

As something pure and good

When it is lies

Forgive the stumble

When face-first, we sprawl

You make us humble

By letting us fall

When we try to impress

Oh Lord, you know

How to remind us

By Whose grace we go

© Janet Martin

 Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Prov.16:18

I will never forget a very humbling fall years ago when I worked at an in-store bakery. 

I had dashed (most likely in unnecessary frenzy)

 to the walk-in freezer (after the time of day when I had hoped to be home)

standing on some hurriedly-piled boxes to reach something on the top shelf

when the stack gave out and I landed heels over head with the door open

and a truck-driver delivering goods happening to pass by just then...

He laughed til he cried then quickly came to my aid

where I was trying to right myself (esp my dress!!!)

He asked my forgiveness while dissolving on the floor in a fit of laughter again, saying 

it was truly one of the 'funniest things' he had ever seen.

I, mortified beyond words returned to the bakery in a much meeker state of mind.