Love Gifts by Helen Steiner Rice Read Free Book Online

it’s part of the spirit that soars to the sky.

F AİTH I S A C ANDLE

    In this sick world of hatred and violence and sin,
    Where society renounces morals
    and rejects discipline,
    We stumble in darkness groping vainly for light
    To distinguish the difference
    between wrong and right …
    But dawn cannot follow this night of despair
    Unless faith lights a candle in all hearts everywhere …
    And warmed by the glow, our hate melts away
    And love lights the path to a peaceful new day.

M OTHERS A RE S PECİAL P EOPLE

    Mothers are special people
    In a million different ways,
    And merit loving compliments
    And many words of praise,
    For a mother’s aspiration
    Is for her family’s success,
    To make the family proud of her
    And bring them happiness …
    And like our heavenly Father,
    She’s a patient, loving guide,
    Someone we can count on
    To be always on our side.

O N L İFE’S B USY T HOROUGHFARES W E M EET WİTH A NGELS U NAWARES

    The unexpected kindness from an unexpected place,
    A hand outstretched in friendship,
    a smile on someone’s face,
    A word of understanding spoken in a time of trial
    Are unexpected miracles that make life more worthwhile.
    We know not how it happened that in an hour of need
    Somebody out of nowhere proved to be a friend indeed …
    For God has many messengers we fail to recognize,
    But He sends them when we need them,
    and His ways are wondrous and wise …
    So keep looking for an angel and keep listening to hear,
    For on life’s busy, crowded streets, you will find
    God’s presence near.

B LESSİNGS İN D İSGUİSE A RE D İFFİCULT TO R ECOGNİZE

    God sends His little angels in many forms and guises.
    They come as lovely miracles that God alone devises,
    For He does nothing without purpose,
    everything’s a perfect plan
    To fulfill in bounteous measure all
    He ever promised man …
    For every little angel with a body bent or broken
    Or a little mind challenged or little words unspoken
    Is just God’s way of trying to reach out
    and touch the hands
    Of all who do not know Him
    and cannot understand
    That often through an angel
    whose wings will never fly
    The Lord is pointing out the way to His eternal sky,
    Where there will be no handicaps
    of body, soul, or mind
    And where all limitations will be
    dropped and left behind …
    So accept these little angels as gifts from God above,
    And thank Him for this lesson in faith
    and hope and love.

A P RAYER FOR THE B RİDE

    Oh, God of love look down and bless
    This radiant bride with happiness,
    And fill her life with love’s sweet song,
    Enough to last her whole life long …
    And give her patience when things disturb
    So she can somehow gently curb
    Hasty words in anger spoken,
    Leaving two hearts sad and broken …
    And give her guidance all through life
    And keep her a loving, faithful wife.

A M OTHER’S L OVE

    A mother’s love is something that no one can explain—
    It is made of deep devotion and of sacrifice and pain.
    It is endless and unselfish and enduring,
    come what may,
    For nothing can destroy it or take that love away.
    It believes beyond believing when the
    world around condemns,
    And it glows with all the beauty of the rarest,
    brightest gems.
    It is far beyond defining, it defies all explanation,
    And it still remains a secret like the
    mysteries of creation—
    A many-splendored miracle man cannot understand
    And another wondrous evidence
    of God’s tender, guiding hand.

T HE M İRACLE OF M ARRİAGE

    Marriage is the union of two people in love,
    And love is sheer magic, for it’s woven of
    Gossamer dreams, enchantingly real,
    That people in love are privileged to feel …
    But the exquisite ecstasy that captures the heart
    Of two people in love is just a small part
    Of the beauty and wonder and miracle of
    That growth and fulfillment and evolvement of love …
    For only long years of living together
    And caring and sharing in all kinds of weather
    Both pleasure and pain, the glad and the sad,
    Teardrops and