Selfish sadness

 Connor leaving home sent me downhill 

Just my lonely thoughts I's thinking of 

Trusting Him with Connor, His way such an honour 

My grief transformed through His way of Love

Now I'm not nothing, I have Love 

I miss him but I know He's in Your hand

Oh Lord I trust You, full of hope in just You 

Can have Your patience while on Earth I stand 

Connor's 25, I'm thrilled to see him thrive 

He's alive so seeing dimly in the mirror 

Come judgement day, the partial pass away

Face to face, we'll all see Christ clearer

Now I'm not nothing, I have Love 

I miss him but I know He's in Your hand

Oh Lord I trust You, full of hope in just You 

Can have Your patience while on Earth I stand 

Now I'm not nothing, I have Love 

I miss him but I know He's in Your hand

Oh Lord I trust You, full of hope in just You 

Can have Your patience while on Earth I stand.

1 Corinthians 13 (ESV)

The Way of Love

1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.