I can speak until words fail me
I can walk a good path
If I speak without love
My words simply won't last
I can give alms to my neighbor
Who is desperately in need
If I give without love
What good is that deed?
I can honor my family
Making sure they are fed
If I leave out the love
What good is that bread?
I can sit in a church pew
With a heart made of stone
What good is believing
If love can't be shown?
If I feel I must judge you
Let me judge myself first
And the answer I will find there
Is that love should never hurt
I fall so short of perfection
I can't pretend to advise
Yet one thing I'm quite sure of
Love sees through different eyes
Today is truly a present
A sweet gift from above
Yet it's lost all it's value
Unless I'm living it with love
Karen Shaw Matteson
©2003
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Never apologize for showing feeling.
When you do so, you
apologize for the truth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can the floods drown it.
Song of Solomon 8:7, the Bible
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Song ~ Through The Eyes Of Love
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