13: 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
1 Love's debt to each and all we owe,
to those who brought us to this day,
and how can we return this love?
In things we do? In words we say?
2 Some debts seem more than we can bear,
to brother, sister, parent, child;
for while we give and give again,
our love is weak, our sense beguiled.
3 O God where is the purest love,
that does not seek for pride or wealth?
God give to me, that I might share,
the love that seeks another's health.
4 God help me love as you love me
with selfless, unremitting care.
And when I look to those around
to see the face of Christ is there.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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