Love is kind, it thinks before speaking
Harsh words that damage tender hearts.
Love speaks kindness with a soft voice
That sooths hurting emotions.
Love has compassion
Love builds up others
Love is giving
Love cares
Love is
Kind
Reverse Etheree
Today is National “Love is Kind” Day.
I think it’s a day we should celebrate every day!
https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-love-is-kind-day-july-27/
I want to help you
But I’m struggling too
I see your pain
And sadness too
I want to help you
But I’m struggling too
So I’ll do what I can
And pray for you
That God Who Sees All
Will help us two
Make it through
Rhyme
Heartprints
Everywhere
Left by those who care
Mean more than fingerprints or
Footprints
Cinquain
( I was surprised to see another heart shape in my path today as I walked thru the parking lot at my local grocery store. This one was just a dry patch in the wet blacktop, not sure how it came to be there but it caught my eye. The last heart shape I saw a couple weeks ago in the parking lot was created from gum or candy I think. Just amazing that I keep seeing these heart shapes in my path. Looks like someone is leaving heartprints! 😊 )
Reminds me of the beautiful poem I posted below by an Unknown Author . It’s titled “Heartprints”
Heartprints
Whatever our hands touch – we leave fingerprints!
On walls, on furniture, doorknobs, dishes, books – there’s no escape!
As we touch we leave our identity.
Oh God, wherever I go today, help me leave heartprints!
Heartprints of compassion, of understanding and love,
Heartprints of kindness and genuine concern.
May my heart touch a lovely neighbor, or a runaway daughter
or an anxious mother, or perhaps even a friend.
Lord, send me out today to leave heartprints.
And if someone should say “I felt your touch”,
May that one sense YOUR LOVE
Touching them through ME!
Author: Unknown
Hearts blossom and grow
Nurtured with compassion
On the Tree of Love
Haiku
Floating in the air
So many sounds surrounding
The Listening Ears
Swiftly capture each word
To bring them into the heart
Tanka
We have been created with two ears and one mouth, therefore,
“…be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:” James 1:19 KJV
In a world of hurt
One heart among many
Can bring souls comfort
One heart that’s surrendered
Completely to God’s will
Tanka
As I continue to read the true story of Katie Davis Majors heart’s commitment to God and His will, I am amazed at what God has done through her for the people in Uganda.
I recommend reading her book “Kisses for Katie”. It’s a great testimony of what God can accomplish through one heart that’s totally surrendered to Him.
I see you
Walking about
Standing on the street corner
Holding a cardboard sign that says
It all
Cinquain
Caring about others
Is vibrant
Catalyst for life
Syllable Lune
Love thy neighbor
Standing in the pouring rain
On a city corner
Not dressed for Winter weather
Yet he didn’t complain
Though he’s covered in raindrops
From his head to foot
He smiles and says he’s thankful
It’s not a hot, sunny day
Choka
Today was a wet, windy, winter day as Oregon winters usually are. I didn’t really want to be out in it but I needed coffee for tomorrow’s breakfast so I made a quick run to the grocery.
I left the store feeling pretty cheery as my coffee was on sale and the bottles I returned put an extra $2.00 cash in my pocket.
As I was driving out of the store parking lot I got stopped at the red light, where a young man in only a thin shirt and pants was standing holding a soggy cardboard sign that said “Anything Helps. Have a Blessed Day”
Feeling he must be pretty desperate to be out in this weather, I rolled down my window and handed him the $2.00 cash I had just gotten. He took it and said “Thank You”.
“It’s pretty rainy and chilly out here today” I said, making conversation as the light was still red.
Though he was soaked from head to foot he smiled and said it was better than a hot sunny day and that he would rather be wet from rain than sweat.
Even so, I told him there was a thrift shop in town where he might be able to get a raincoat free. He said he knew that but had to wait until next month to get his voucher.
The light turned green and I had to move on.
I called my daughter. “Do you happen to have a raincoat at your house that no one is using?” I asked.
“Just that green one you gave me last summer” she replied.
Ah, the Green Raincoat. I had found it in a box marked “Free” at a yard sale I was at this summer. I took it with me that day thinking my daughter or someone in our family could use it, but no one had. It had just hung on a hook waiting for this time in life. It’s purpose had been found. It was going to someone who really needed it.
The young man smiled as I returned and and gave him the raincoat.
“You have a Blessed Day” he said, as he put on the green raincoat which fit him perfectly.
Unwanted and discarded
Have you ever felt that way?
Banished, set free
Judged unworthy by those
Who don’t see your value
You go through life hanging ‘round
Waiting and hoping
The day will come when you
Are noticed, needed
Choka
Just
Do not
Understand it!
I am a helper,
I love to help,
But why doesn’t everyone?
Why are some selfish,
Unwilling to give a helping hand?
I just don’t understand it at all!
They are missing out on so very much.
Etheree
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 