Sunday, September 18, 2011

Love for others

Internalizing, understanding, feeling at one with St. Paul's assertion in Romans 9:2-3: "My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them."

My personal one is for those whom God has placed in my path - people in families adopting children, to whom they can not share the good news of God's love for them for they do not know Him either. Yet this has extended to the people who where charged to care for my children before they came to our family.


         Lifeboat

Pulled from the wreckage of life,
    Bound now for eternal bliss,
With heart breaking for others,
    I seek to throw a line of life.

More than my place in the boat,
    I would that others go.
I love them so.

- 18 Sep 2011