Prodigal:  I think you need this message today.

Me:  I agree, the Lord will always send us truth when we need it.

 

This is from the book Sunrays of Help by Dr. Albert Garner

 

Could we but draw back the curtains

That surround each other’s lives,

See the naked heart and spirit,

Know what spur the action gives;

 

Often we should find it better,

Purer than we judge we should;

We should love each other better,

If we only understood.

 

Could we judge all deeds by motives,

See the good and bad within,

Often we should love the sinner

All the while we loathe the sin;

 

Could we know the powers working

To overthrow integrity,

We should love each other’s errors

With more patient Charity.

 

If we knew the cares and trials,

Knew the efforts all in vain,

And the bitter disappointment,

Understood the loss and gain–

 

Would the grim eternal roughness

Seem–I wonder–just the same?

Should we help where now we hinder,

Should we pity where now we blame.

 

Ah! we judge each other harshly,

Knowing not life’s hidden force;

Knowing not the fount of action

Is less turbid at its source–

 

Seeing not amid the evil

All the golden grain of good;

And we would love each other better

If we only understood.

 

 

Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine.

Micah 6:15

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org