Love Comes Through

Flowers aren't fragrant for themselves

Birds don't sing for their own pleasure

Trees don't eat of their own fruit

Rivers don't drink from their own depths

Mountains don't shade their own peaks

The sun doesn't shine to warm itself

And Jesus didn't die for nothing.

People aren't here to live alone,

We're born for one another.

Living to bless others is life.

When that light shines true,

Its beams are most radiant

Love comes through.

*poem created from a

quote of Pope Francis for Earth Day