Be Generous With Your Mercy

Be generous with your mercy,

Do as you ask me to do.

Recognize pain in each other

And help each other get through.

Don’t look to the offense given,

Look through the offenders eyes.

If there is room for forbearance,

Give it, with all that implies.

Bear patiently, the impatient,

Allow them some extra grace.

There have been times in abundance

When you have stood in their place.

You ask that I should forgive you

Your often repeated sins,

Don’t forget that forgiveness is

Not where it ends, but begins.

You know that I will embrace you

Or help you up when you fall,

So reach your hand to another

Whenever you hear them call.

To learn what I have been teaching

You have to match word with deed.

Be generous with your mercy,

For often that’s all we need