Keep Love Alive

Remember when you felt love live--and die,
you wondered how to keep your love alive,
without the feeling, how you didn’t try?
Love must be fed and practiced to survive.

When love’s spontaneous, it is more fun,
feelings of love still live inside your heart,
but feelings fade and, unfed, love’s undone,
it doesn’t hurt so much to be apart.

Love fresh can form some habits that remain,
love can be nourished and then exercised,
love takes commitment and accepts the pain,
with work, time, faithfulness, love’s energized.

Faith too in You helps, Lord, with grace and prayer,
but most of all, one simply has to care.

by Pete Voelz       7/26/15
Happy Parents Day