PRACTICAL LOVE

Love is bandaging a leper.
Love is spooning food to the famished.
Love is clothing the naked.
Love is loving the unlovely.
Love is seeking a soul behind the facade of liquor or drugs.
Love is hearing the cry of the lonely and hushing them to sleep.
Love is pouring oil and wine into the wounds of a sick soul.
Love is calling the stray with the music of a harp.
Love is including the unwanted.
Love is never exclusive.
Love is a gentle touch on the shoulder of the lonely.
Love is kindness on the lips as dew on the petal.
Love is a cup of hot tea in the winter.
Love is a cup of cold water in the summer.
Love is our decreasing and God increasing.

LOVE'S BOUQUET

Joy is love sparkling when gloom's about.
Peace is love at the rest.
Long suffering is love stretched beyond human endurance.
Gentleness is love with a baby's touch.
Meekness is love on its knees.
Mercy is love with tears in its eyes.
Grace is love pouring oil on troubled waters.
Prayer is love interceding.
Kindness is wrapping a weak soul in blanket of down.
Temperance is love in balance.
Patience is love waiting.
Truth is love covered with light.
Courtesy is love stepping aside.
Compassion is love throwing its arms around the world both spiritually and physically.

HIS HAND

Your name,
Is it
Not written
On the palm of
His Hand
With Love?
When you
Forget Him
He lifts
His Hand
And
Remembers you

CONVERSATION (Eph 3:8)

I talked
To my gold
It answered
Me naught...
But shone
In my eyes
A blindness
Brought.
I talked
To my God
And behold
He gave me
Everything...
A peace
That endures
A love
That ensures
And
Everlasting life.

MARRIAGE

You’re taking a walk
Down a path of life
A path that only
You two can take.
A way
Winding through a tangle
Of joys and dreams...
Expecting that each door
Will open into
A brilliance of happiness.
But happiness
Is not happened upon
My dears:
It is an overflowing stream.
Of little thoughtful things:
The everyday love wrought out
In the ordinary needful deeds.
The plants at the edge of life's flow
Will be nourished each day
By your prayers.
Saturated by His spirit.
There will be flowers and fruit.
In abundance:
All cultivated by your
Shared, unselfish and devoted love.

Claire Adriance 

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