Me: Love some watermelon!

Prodigal: Yes, fruit at anytime is good.

This is from “For the Fruits of the Spirit” Hymn, XXV (IV,194,195)

Jesus, God of peace and love,

Send Thy blessing from above,

Take, and seal us for Thine own,

Touch our hearts, and make them one.

By the sense of sin forgiven

Purge out all the former leaven,

Malice, guile, and proud offence;

Take the stone of stumbling hence.

Root up every bitter root,

Multiply the Spirit’s fruit,

Love, and joy, and quiet peace,

Meek, longsuffering goodness;

Strict and general temperance,

Boundless, pure benevolence,

Cordial firm fidelity;

All the mind which was in Thee.

And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: Deuteronomy 14:24 (KJV)

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org