GOD’S LITTLE DEVOTIONAL BOOK
FOR PARENTS
Continuing are excerpts from “God’s Little
Devotional Books.”
You may give without loving,
but you cannot love without giving.
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
One
evening just before Mary Martin, the great Broadway musical star,
was to go on stage in South Pacific, a note was handed to
her. It was from Oscar Hammerstein, who had written this to her
from his deathbed: Dear Mary, A bells, not a bell till you
ring it. A song’s not a song till you sing it. Love in your
heart is not put there to stay. Love isn’t love till you give it
away.
After
her performance that night a number of people rushed backstage,
exclaiming, “Mary, what happened to you out there tonight? We
have never heard anything like that performance! You sang with
more power than you’ve ever sung!” Blinking back tears, Mary then
read them the note from Hammerstein and added, “Tonight, I gave my
love away!”
Even
the poorest person has something to give to others if he has love
in his heart. Love’s gifts take many forms - a smile, a hug, a
note of thanks, “just being there” in tough times. Love is the
one gift that always fits, is always in season and in fashion.
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