March 6

And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. — 1 Cor 13:3

Beloved, let us love so well
Our work shall still be better for our love,
And still our love be sweeter for our work:
And both commended for the sake of each
By all true workers and true lovers born.
— Elizabeth B. Browning.

Earth saddens, never shall remove,
Affections purely given;
And e’en that mortal grief shall prove
The immortality of love,
And heighten it with heaven.
— Elizabeth B. Browning.

Prayer

Loving Father, I pray that I may not try to change the standard of love by grafting on my own selfishness and infirmities. May I remember that it is mostly for gratification that love is held to the base in life; may I follow it to the summits, where it is divine. Amen.