Undeserved Kindness

How tenderly you cared for me when you found me broken on the road did lift me up gave me your own cup removed from me my heavy load You dressed my wounds with healing balm every injury you sought repair I do not think I'd be alive today without your love and finest care You took me in to your own home every hurt did you seek to ease a lifetime of their damage done the bruise and cuts of the abusive All the words that struck like whips not a place on me untouched I cower and cringe like an animal back against the wall I've clutched When I cried you sat by my side gently held me in your embrace your patience here coaxed my fear till I could look you in the face I would follow you where 'ere you go just to hear the kindness of your voice where you live I will make my home there to learn your ways my choice To lay in pain was deaths refrain but instilled a desire to life but promised me that I would see a world where lived no strife So in my mind I'm no longer blind you will achieve this reality for I know if I live like you a life in paradise will be For all the wrong you sought to heal for within the joy of heart I feel I cried when I saw a body malformed the ridicule of the mean those they scorned You were hard of hearing could barely see but the schoolyard kids laughed heartily so many places for lessons to learn but only yourself was your concern It was long ago I left you behind to pursue and learn the gentle mind no interest have I to follow the crowd of the livin' large and out loud Luke 10: 30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[e] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’ 36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” 37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” COPYRIGHT © 2012 C Michael Miller Via Duboff Law Group LLC