Undeserved Kindness

How tenderly you cared for me

when you found me broken on the road

did lift me up gave me your own cup

removed from me my heavy load

 

You dressed my wounds with healing balm

every injury you sought repair

I do not think I'd be alive today

without your love and finest care

 

You took me in to your own home

every hurt did you seek to ease

a lifetime of their damage done

the bruise and cuts of the abusive

 

All the words that struck like whips

not a place on me untouched

I cower and cringe like an animal

back against the wall I've clutched

 

When I cried you sat by my side

gently held me in your embrace

your patience here coaxed my fear

till I could look you in the face

 

I would follow you where 'ere you go

just to hear the kindness of your voice

where you live I will make my home

there to learn your ways my choice

 

To lay in pain was deaths refrain

but instilled a desire to life

but promised me that I would see

a world where lived no strife

 

So in my mind I'm no longer blind

you will achieve this reality

for I know if I live like you

a life in paradise will be

 

For all the wrong you sought to heal

for within the joy of heart I feel

I cried when I saw a body malformed

the ridicule of the mean those they scorned

 

You were hard of hearing could barely see

but the schoolyard kids laughed heartily

so many places for lessons to learn

but only yourself was your concern

 

It was long ago I left you behind

to pursue and learn the gentle mind

no interest have I to follow the crowd

of the livin' large and out loud 

 

Luke 10:

30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[e] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’

36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”

37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”

 

 

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