GIVE AND TAKE

God’s gifts to all so numerous
we can’t grasp their magnitude,
He is love, its very essence
to all His Holy Love exudes.

He gives from out His Treasury
His hands ever overflowing,
we take without a grateful thought
our thanks to Him not showing.

The reason for these gifts of love
like in the talent’s parable,
is to use them to help others
making sure their hands are full.

We take from our Heavenly Father
and our thanks should always be,
in the spending of these talents
for God’s precious family.

To take and take without a thought
of your neighbour’s misery,
because of the greed within us
we don’t have eyes to see.

Ears no longer hear the voices
of those who live in poverty,
hearts hardened by their love of self
know no such thing as charity.

As God looks down upon the masses
of His children grown so cold,
and sees the day of judgment
and how all will unfold.

The sorrow we must cause Him
so deep must be His pain,
to think that for us His suffering Son
gave His life, a death of shame.

Because of His Victory on the Cross
where He took on all our sins,
now for everyone it’s possible
His Kingdom for to win.

Lord, awaken all our senses
to Your love’s intensity,
and help us spend our talents
out of love oh God for thee.

Margaret Rose Larrivee
Mar. 21, 2007