Love

PETALS from the Scrapbook of a Novice

By Ruth Vogel, Sacred Heart Fraternity, Arlington, Virginia

From the power of a word can eternity spring?

Can a helpless babe be Creator and King?

 

The word LOVE is so small, like a pea in a pod.

But, how can it be small? It's an offspring of God!

 

This one humble word LOVE; can a thing so small

Pierce the concrete and stone of a soul's prison wall?

 

Look! LOVE'S candle flame in the black of the night;

See it shatter the dark with its bright, golden light.

 

See that speck of dust, drab, ugly and cold.

Ah! But touch it with Love's sunlight — transmute it to gold.

 

Man: a speck of dust on the highway of time.

Man: a temple of God's LOVE, a tabernacle sublime!