Because Life is a Gift at Best

If only we all loved each other likelittle girl besties... ...or as if tomorrow would be too late! When somebody disappoints usWhen a word or action stingsAnd spite’s bitter brunt anoints usWith retaliation’s flingsLest perspective is mistakenAnd reason misunderstoodThough our happiness is shakenLet’s repay offense with good Because love is kind and humbleAnd keeps no record of wrongWe all sometimes slip and stumbleAs we learn to get alongSo let’s forgive, without measureNo nursed grudges, unconfessedRobbing us of holy treasure/pleasureFor life is a gift at best When malicious retributionsRush to settle some sad scoreLet’s rekindle resolutionsTo love one another moreBefore the circle is brokenAnd earth claims its solemn dueLet’s not leave Heaven unspokenAs its Token runs us through Today grants fresh invitationsTo engage in charity  Love is the healer of nationsBeginning with you and meThus we, all in this togetherOught to augment joy and peaceGathered by time's tender tetherThat is destined to release Janet Martin 1 Cor.13If I speak in the tongues[] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardshipthat I may boast,[] but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.