Sharing
Love
What’s it all about?
Why should I care about
another’s pain?
Why should I share it?
Hear it?
Live it?
Breathe it?
Why?
Why should I love?
Why should I share?
And why lay bare
myself
for others to know
to trample upon
to see inside
to joke and jest
the fear
the frailty
the frustrations
the angers,
pains
and griefs?
Why be reminded
of what is past?
Why?
God you comforted me
you healed me
you lifted me
and you made me new.
I’m free
free of all that’s held me
free of the guilt
free of the chains
free of the lies
that Satan’s told.
So, why to share it?
Why to give?
Why to
listen
and why to care?
Surely another’s struggle is his own?
How can I
give
and give
and give again?
Yet, how can I not?
God wants for me
to comfort others
as He’s comforted me.
He says
it’s in giving
you shall receive
in dying you shall live
when you give up your life
you shall gain it.
But, it’s not only that …
Jesus in me
cannot help but love
and long to see
people free.
Jesus in me
and I in Jesus
that’s what scripture says
He loved me
He died for me
He delivered me
how can I hold back?
how can I refrain?
I’ve a message of hope
that I must give out
hard though it is
I’ll share
and I’ll love.
But hard it’s not
it can’t be
God says
he who would love God
must love his brother also
If I don’t love my brother
then I don’t love God.
But I do love you God
I adore you
with a depth of emotion
words can’t express
it has no feelings
but it is intense.
That same love’s for
my brother
my sister
— good or bad
happy or sad
I can’t hold back
I won’t hold back.
Copyright © 1985 Fran Woods
This page was last updated 05/04/07