When people speak of LOVE and PEACE,
do we really know what they are talking about?
For what is TRUE LOVE?
and what is TRUE PEACE?
Is love a mere congenial feeling of warmth
for your fellowmen?
Is peace attained through silence
or through the absence of wars and protests for different beliefs?
Is TRUE LOVE keeping silent
when someone you truly love is being harmed
is harming himself
or is purporting to harm another?
Is TRUE LOVE deaf to cries of your loved one’s pain?
is TRUE LOVE blind to one another’s malady?
Does TRUE LOVE turn away for every discomfort encountered?
Or does it endure and remain patient to the end?
When your love encounters differences,
which measure does it use to transcend such differences?
Does it ignore these differences
pretending they’re not there for the sake of peace?
Or does it use a Higher Perspective
One that can transform both hearts
and give them new eyes to see
new hearts to Love
like they have not loved before?
How complete is the LOVE in your heart?
How long can it endure?
How far can it suffer
and bear the load of another?
How True indeed, how True?
What is LOVE?
and what is PEACE?
Do men realize what these are when they speak?
“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 record of wrongs
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth”
-Cor. 1 13
Check Jocelyn's books:
"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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