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Love

5 posts · 2 participants · started Jan 28, 2025, 1:15 PM

Mark KurtzParticipant
Jan 28, 2025, 1:15 PM
From understanding teachings from The Urantia Book and from hearing others comment comes this short expression from last year:

Let Love

Let love dominate thoughts
Let love tower over people
Let love wrap your smiles
Let love power words.

Let love dilute anger and hate
power ideas of more love,
Let love empower forgiveness,
smooth your feelings.

Let love shine in your friendships,
gifting more love for all
Let love be long-suffering power
over evil’s challenge demands.

Let love always be seen embracing
those who care, those who dare.
Let love carry you upward in spirit
loving all now and forever.

Mark A. Kurtz 2024
MaraParticipant
Jan 30, 2025, 8:38 PM
Thank you Mark. I’ve been mulling over your expressions on love.

I found something I wrote years ago which seems to me to be somewhat akin to the lord’s prayer. I think it was on my mind when I conceived it. I thought it might fit in here with your thoughts.

My Father in heaven,

Creator of all of things, your will be done

on this earth as it is done on your heavenly

spheres of space. I long to know you and

to follow the leadings of your divine spirit

within.

By daily work we have bread for our

table, and we reach out with loving kindness

to serve those who are in need. Teach us how

to help our suffering planet, and teach us how to

love, even those who speak against you.

Amen

All the best
Mark KurtzParticipant
Jan 31, 2025, 2:31 PM
It is a nice prayer, Mara. For me it harmonizes with my understanding of UB authors’ description of our future status of settled in light and life, when harmony itself raises life to glorified achievements. This is a good reach, a right direction toward the Father. Thank you.
MaraParticipant
Feb 2, 2025, 9:15 PM
Here is something I penned a while back. This one probably isn’t finished. I go back to work on these things and get all fumbled up.

There is no decline in wealth in the spiritual economy of the universes,

no recesses in the outpouring of abundance streaming forth from God,

no decline in efficiency experts, or teachers, or employment numbers,

no shortages of goods and services,

nor depreciations in the value of real estate, stocks, raw materials,

no diminishment of time or space,

no unforeseen accidents in the cosmos.

Poverty is not a word in His vocabulary.

God bestows his love profusely, equally,

without measure to every creature under the suns.

He is not grambling with a deck of cards

to win a hand in a debate in his universes.

Rain or shine his love pours forth

upon the creatures of his creation

to the rich and to the poor,

to children and politicians, laborers, alike

in the same measure, if they would choose it,

even unsteadily.

Because on the ledgers of God

mercy is weighted in favor of his creature children.
MaraParticipant
Feb 6, 2025, 6:07 PM
I revised this one a bit.

There is no decline in wealth

     in the spiritual economy of the universes,

     no recesses in the outpouring

     of abundance streaming forth from God,

     no shortages of efficiency experts,

     of teachers, or employment numbers,

     no diminution of goods and services,

     nor depreciations in the value

     of real estate, stocks, raw materials,

     no lessening of time or of space,

     no unforeseen accidents in the cosmos.

Poverty is not a word in God’s vocabulary.

God bestows his love profusely, equally,

without measure to every creature child under the suns.

He is not gambling with a deck of cards

to win a hand or win a debate in his universes.

Rain or shine his love pours forth

upon the creatures of his creation –

     to the rich and to the poor,

     to children and politicians, laborers, alike

     in the same measure, if they would choose it,

     even unsteadily.

Because on the ledgers of God

mercy is weighted in favor of his creature children.

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