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If Not Charity
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There should be more:
God, will you have
More?
There is great need
Awful, tearing need
As if a maw
Like all the mouths we fear
Should swallow us
God,
Will you meet us there?
Charity begins
Where charity begins
We don’t interpret well
Who cares
Take up the toys
Gather in the food
Say something special
Better to be doing it
And saying it
What is giving
Don’t wait for philosophy
If you have a dollar
Or a handkerchief
You might be rich
You might be on the sidewalk
Where I called you
Says the Lord
Our God
Who is our God
And preaches mysteries
Though love is clear enough
Share it
Keep it well
Pearls planted well inside
The ocean of our need
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Emerald waves from above.
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13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
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(from) Paul’s first letter to believers in Corinth
King James Version (and the tongues of people)
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