Train Our Love

Train our love
that it may grow
slowly...deeply...steadily;
till our hearts will overflow
unrestrained and readily.

Discipline it too,
dear God;
strength of steel
throughout the whole.
Teach us patience,
thoughtfulness,
tenderness and
self-control.

Deepen it
throughout the years,
age and mellow it
until,
time that finds us
old without,
within,
will find us
lovers still.

--by Ruth Bell Graham