NO ACT OF LOVE

NO ACT OF LOVE




TODAY-on ALL Saints day
We are surrounded
By a great cloud of WITNESSES


Those who have already come
Those currently in the world today
And those yet to come


Some of the saints' names
Are marked on the
Official calendar of saints and religious


SOME have lived their lives unnoticed
But it doesn't matter


NO ACT OF LOVE
For God or our neighbor
Goes unmarked or unnoticed


“After this-I had a vision
Of a great multitude


Which no one could count


From every nation-race-people-
And tongue” Revelation 7:9


And today-
I want to go on RECORD
To RECOGNIZE the saints
Who have helped me


On my journey
Through life


They are my PERSONAL SAINTS
For all time


My parents-my sisters-
EXTENDED relatives including uncles-aunts-
Cousins-FRIENDS-and religious men and women
Who have HELPED me
On my way


You KNOW who you are
And what you have done for me-
And I KNOW TOO


Without them/WITHOUT YOU
I would never
Have arrived at this point
In my life


And MOST of all
I want to thank God
And endless array of saints
That I have PRAYED TO


I have desperately needed
ALL of your help


“In my distress
I called to the Lord


I cried to my God
FOR HELP” Psalm 18:6


“I LIFT my eyes
To the mountain-


WHERE does my HELP come from?” Psalm 121:1


“In everything that I did
I showed you
By this kind of hard work


WE must help the weak
REMEMBERING the words
The Lord Jesus Christ himself said


'It is MORE BLESSED to give
Than to receive'” Acts 20:35


OUR HELP
Comes from God
And the saints of this world


The official saints of God
And those saints
PUT in this world
To HELP us on our journey
Through life


NO ACT OF LOVE
Ever goes unnoticed


By God or by us
(Those in NEED of the help)


So today-DEAR LORD-
And every day


We ask you
To let us walk
With the saints of this world


And to always help us
GIVE THANKS


To those who
Have touched our life


In the past-presently-
And those who will
Come in the future


For
NO ACT OF LOVE
Ever goes unnoticed-
Or is ever forgotten


In Jesus' name


Robert P. Wallman
10-31-15




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE bu Sister Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.




SAINT DEFINED=a person OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED by the CHRISTIAN CHURCH as being very HOLY because of the way he or she lived; a person who is VERY GOOD-KIND-or PATIENT




Ps 8-25-2019