What Peace We Feel...

...when something Jesus
 said to do
is at long last done.
And of all our Master's
sayings sublime
there has been this one
harder for me to carry out
than all the rest,
"Love thy neighbor as thyself",
when some neighbor has been unkind.
Such struggling and praying
to get this right,
but obviously with
loving God supremely,
one of the two best.
Talk about looking up
at Mount Everest
and thinking,
"I've got to scale this?"
But when said neighbor
is finally, truly, really
loved and we want for them
the good we want for ourself,
what joy and freedom
this never fails to bring.
We feel so clean.
Beyond a doubt,
what God gave Jesus
to give to all of us
is for our right now
and everlasting benefit.