Walking Life With Sympathy
by Michael Doyle

Life is lived best in contemplation,
All is aimed toward our redemption.
Choices are made at least as we can
To be our best woman or man.

We are not born in this world to conform,
But instead, to earnestly transform.
Working toward being godly and true,
Steadily applying our minds as we do.

Though often loud in our opinionated community,
We often miss the best of our spirituality.
Almost all take God a little too casually.
We all have a need to live life more humbly.

Loving our neighbors as ourselves,
We walk the Bible right off the shelf.
Embracing the Gospel in our maturity,
Our lives are lived contentedly in our society.

We pay our debts, steeped in Godly love,
Living each moment as if following the above.
Our relationships are a debt lived to be paid,
Loving each other if our lives are not mislaid.

Salvation moments fill our living hearts,
When we take on Christ and Satan departs.
Incredible as that is, we see God's love for all people,
Not just our friends living protected by the steeple.

We are His ambassadors in our living life,
Bringing hope, joy, and peace to replace strife.
The thumbprint of Heaven is on our souls,
To be the steady rock, not the moss that rolls.

To love is the fulfillment of God's holy law.
This is the standard we must keep and recall.
As Christ has perfected our open brokenness,
We are to live our love with outspokenness.

Unable to be paid back, we must move toward.
We wear our love to pay it ever forward.
Living God's ways are a matter of relationship.
Especially, if we are living the right worship.

The love of Christ turns this world upside down,
Bringing love for others as the victory crown.
We must treat others as Christ has loved us,
Doing our best to love all others, because...

The Lord has given us this grace,
Tender toward our transgressions with an open embrace.
We must love our neighbors as a priority,
Over ourselves is and will be our living legacy.

Surrounded by the wounded, we must care,
While loving others with our souls laid bare.
All that we do is a living reflection
Of echoing love and not living as a correction.

Like a Samaritan, having much mercy,
We are to live life with loving empathy.
Applying God's ways to our every day.
This then is how we live God's way.

Leafing through the Bible, page after page,
We find Christ's gift is not death's wage.
Along the road that we will surely travel,
We are to love each person deeply as we are able.

We are to see each encounter with blessed empathy,
We are sometimes living challenged with sympathy.
We know, beyond knowing, that life is to live,
And we are here to give the fullness we can give.

(c) September 21, 2025   Michael Doyle
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