There is no fear but love will someday conquer,
There is no fear love cannot cast away
For God is love and if we truly trust Him,
He leads us safely in His chosen way.
Love can forgive what nothing else can pardon,
Embrace what seems impossible to bear;
Love's joyful task is trust and patient waiting
With open hearts to suffer, give, and care.
Herein is love: not that we loved our Maker
But that we sinners were of Him beloved
So perfectly that He for us submitted
To die our death and saving, rise above.
Shall persecution, human will or peril
Divide us from the precious love of Christ?
In Him we live and move and have our being--
How can we from His side e're be enticed?
For us, completely undeserving,
Our Lord gave all to bear the cross of shame.
Beloved, let us love as Christ has loved us;
Let us rejoice and glorify His name.
(Unpublished, written about March, 1964)
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