That's Amore'

Happy Valentine's Day!

That's Amore'

Oh Lord help me have lots of patience,

to be kind and considerate too.

For I too, need patience and kindness,

so to give it's the least I can do.

To put others before my desires,

is what helps me be humble and fair.

If I think only of my selfish wishes,

 it would prove that I really don't care.

Lord, I don't want to be boastful,

I'll let others trumpet my knack.

To to say it myself would be tacky,

and finesse would be something I lacked.

Anger and envy are ugly,

and ugly I don't want in me.

 So I'll plant a big grin on my grinner,

and just let anger and envy go free.

 If others can easily provoke me,

then I'm acting in ways I ought not.

I'm behaving myself too unseemly

and it's worse when I think evil thoughts.

 Lord, all I ask for is true love,

please shed it abroad in my heart.

For if I have not love I am empty

and my life would be evil and hard.

 Teach me Lord to walk life uprightly,

so that others will see it as well.

For I don't want to sound a brass trumpet,

or clang in the air like a bell...

written by Caroline 2-14-12

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1 Corinthians 13:13