Jesus, my own kind of love is flawed and conditional. I think I'd like to love the way you do-but I know you'll have to give it to me, because I can't manufacture it. Please fill me with your Spirit, and soften my heart toward others. When someone treats me badly, whisper to me again, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Pat Boone

WARM OUR HEARTS WITH THY LOVE

Oh, God , who made the summer

and warmed the earth with beauty,

Warm our hearts with gratitude

and devotion to our duty,

For in this age of violence,

rebellion and defiance

We've forgotten the meaning

of " dependable reliance"-

We have lost our sense of duty

and our sense of values, too,

And what was once unsanctioned,

no longer is taboo,

Our standards have been lowered

and we resist all discipline,

And our vision has been narrowed

and blinded to all sin-

Oh, put the summer brightness

in our closed, unseeing eyes

So in the careworn faces

That we pass we'll recognize

The heartbreak and the loneliness;

the trouble and despair

That a word of understanding

would make easier to bear-

Oh, God, look down on our cold hearts

and warm them with Your love,

And grant us Your forgiveness

which we're so unworthy of.

Helen Steiner Rice

How can God forgive us if we won't forgive others? Once we are christens we have to develop a forgiving spirit. I know this is very hard to do as I also carried a grudge for many years, and it has taken a lot of prayer for me to forgive. But God is great if you ask He will give you the power to do it.

MAY YOU WALK WITH OUR LORD ALWAYS AND MAY HE CARRY YOU WHEN YOU CAN'T WALK BY YOUR SELF.

Yours in Christ's love Sharon Rose