Calvin: Do you think morality is defined by our actions or
what’s in our hearts
Hobbes: Our actions show what is in our hearts
(Silence)
Calvin: I resent that
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We can close our eyes
We can push those thoughts away
That haunt us
But in the end when we look in the mirror we know
Everyone knows
If they are willing to see
What is in our hearts
It has been said
“you will know them by their fruits”
(some guy named Jesus)
And so it is
Sometimes the fruits are not just bad
They are toxic, devastating, deadly
We see the violence (as missiles land and children die)
We see the poor and the vulnerable abandoned
We know then that the heart is set on hate
The heart is full of greed
And arrogance
Their hearts are revealed
But so is mine
In my fear
In my failure to care
The fruit of my life is often isolation
Distance
Smaller sins to be sure
But in my failure to connect well with others
The poverty of my own heart is revealed
Ah may the love flow
From wherever love comes
May it fill all our hearts
And in the filling
May it overflow
And through the overflow
Through the love
May our hearts be known
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