Sincerity of love

We love because he first loved us. - I John 4:19

After Communion

Dear God, dear God,

You came to me!
How glad I am! And yet I see

I am not what I ought to be.

Here is my heart!  It's small, but I

Have filled it up with love.  I'll try

To keep it that way till I die.    

 - Mary Dixon Thayer

From Friends of Ours by Sr Mary Estelle

of the Sisters of the Order of St Dominic

The Marywood Readers (pg 82)

Grand Rapids, Michigan (1931)