"Be Not Jealous"
(Written by Linda Wright]
Be not jealous, my husband.
Try hard to understand.
I've pledged my love to Another
And given Him my hand.
Be not dismayed, my husband.
I've given Him my heart.
I vowed to love Him forever;
From Him I'll never depart.
Be not angry, my husband,
When to His arms I flee.
'Tis there I learned of faithfulness,
My dearest gift to thee.
Be not frightened, my husband.
He is no threat to you.
"Go my child," He said to me.
"Love your husband true."
Be ye thankful, my husband.
He taught my heart to sing.
A life of love, of joy and peace
Now to you I bring.
Be reassured, my husband.
My joy is being your wife.
I'll bring you honor and loyalty
All the days of my life.
Be not jealous, my husband.
Our lives are richly blessed.
Because His love I did embrace,
I love you more - not less.
Copyright (c) 2000
"This poem was written as a gift to my husband on
our 25th wedding anniversary. Linda"
(1 Corinthians 13 NIV) "If I speak
in the tongues of men and of
angels, but have not love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging
cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy
and can fathom all mysteries
and all knowledge, and if I have a
faith that can move mountains, but
have not love, I am nothing. If I give
all I possess to the poor and
surrender my body to the flames, but
have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does
not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud. It is not rude, it is
not self-seeking, it is not
easily angered, it keeps no record of
wrongs. Love does not delight
in evil but rejoices with the truth. It
always protects, always
trusts, always hopes, always
perseveres. Love never fails. But where
there are prophecies, they will cease;
where there are tongues, they
will be stilled; where there is
knowledge, it will pass away. For we
know in part and we prophesy in part,
but when perfection comes, the
imperfect disappears. When I was a
child, I talked like a child, I
thought like a child, I reasoned like a
child. When I became a man, I
put childish ways behind me. Now we see
but a poor reflection as in a
mirror; then we shall see face to face.
Now I know in part; then I
shall know fully, even as I am fully
known. And now these three
remain: faith, hope and love. But the
greatest of these is love."
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