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What measure do others use

when deciding how much to give me?

How do they know how much to pour—

to hold love back or let love heap.

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Do I let love abundantly spill

or scrape the excess and hoard.

Do I generously give from the till—

or remeasure, lest they get more.

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The truth can fully hurt

and an empty lap can weep—

when the measure given away

is exactly, what comes back to me.

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by Patty Perkins

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Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measures, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”*

*The One Year Bible, March 24, NIV, copyright 1986, Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois.

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