Devotionals - Leaves of Life - December 22

DECEMBER TWENTY-SECOND
• Franz Abt born 1819.
• Thomas W. Higginson born 1823.
• George Eliot died 1880.
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Love and Pain
Make their own measure of all things that be.
No clock's slow ticking marks their deathless strain;
The life they own is not the life we see;
Love's single moment is eternity.
—Thomas W. Higginson.
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Life is made stronger
Giving, receiving;
Love is made longer
Hoping, believing.
Life is made sweeter,
Truly worth living;
Love is completer,
Trusting, forgiving.
—M. B. S.
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In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another.
—Romans 12. 10.
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Loving Father, I thank thee that every morn breaks in a new day without the sadness of yesterday or the gladness of to-morrow. I pray that I may not lose the love and joy that it brings to-day. Amen.