| The Lesson of Love |
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Love is kind. Kindness has been called the small coin of love. It is not shown in large deeds so much as in countless little gentle things. Jesus wrought a few great miracles, but in between the miracles, all the days, hours, and minutes were filled with kindnesses, little words and acts and looks which no one counted.
Love should always abound in kindnesses. Our love should not be kept for great things, but should flow out continually, like fragrance from a flower, as part of our own life. Love is not something to be added to a busy life, as some men have their avocations to which they turn to rest them from their great vocations.
“Most men know love but as a part of life;
They hide it in some corner of the breast
Even from themselves; and only when they rest,
In the brief pauses of that earthly strife
Wherewith our world might else be not so rife,
They draw it forth…
And hold it up to mother, child, or wife.
Ah me! Why may not life and love be one?”
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