Poems exploring the relationship of faith, identity, love and choices.
Faith
Identity
Love
All struggles come from these
All struggles are healed by these
When one is weak it tests the others
When one is strengthened it refines the others
When one is perfected
The others are perfected too
And who but Christ
Has paid the price
To know and live this truth?
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Do you know who you are?
Does your neighbor?
Who but Christ knew so perfectly?
That every choice
Every moment
Is dependent on what we know
About our divine identity.
We wouldn’t hurt ourselves
Or our neighbor
Make dumb choices
Or commit careless sins
If we could see as God sees us
And remember who we’ve always been.
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Why judge the man
Who is poor in understanding who he is?
Who stumbles blindly
On the path back to God
Rather teach him
Through Christ’s love
And he might remember who he is
Shine your light
For to know who you are
Is to love.
To know is to love…
Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matt 22:36-39