appreciating God's love

Love is a rainbow.  Its colors steal our gaze.

unending tolerance for our ungodly ways

a multiplicity and magnificence of hue

a complete expression of all our God can do.

Its colors carry all our emotion

Pains of red, glories of gold

Through all, we have but devotion

to a savior for which we were sold.

The carnal mind hungers within and daily struggles to be free

to ruin our pastels and soft colors, and reduce our spirits to debris

When we submit to our darker desires, to even some smaller degree

we stifle the beauty and wonder that reaches beyond all we can see

we can kill our precious tomorrow, a promise God did decree.

Let us gaze long into the rainbow, let all God's children agree.

That we be both a seed and a harvest, evidence of God's guarantee.

And press on to that undated promise, that day of great jubilee!