Smart and Kind

What difference shows between the dumb and smart?
The liberals think they have a keener mind,
conservatives feel they have a kinder heart,
what’s dumber--to be smart or to be kind?

Some say we love the poor, they’re on our side,
some serve the poor, but with humility,
we’ve been to better schools, some say with pride,
though we scorn you, we love humanity.

Some tend themselves, God they tend to ignore,
the unborn children they leave to their fate,
but others put God first, and then the poor,*
on human life and souls they concentrate.

Mother Theresa and the great John Paul,
kind humble saints--and smartest of us all.

* Some are surprised to hear that Mother Theresa,
though she devoted her order to “the poorest of the
poor,” taught her sisters that their primary role
was to worship Christ in the Eucharist for souls.

                                   by Pete Voelz     5/15/14