Period Poem by Julia Luber

They aren't people who love people because they need them.
They have the luxury of loving people because they are easy
to love. It is a luxury. It is God's indulgence of time and creation.
It is essentially expensive and for people who would not be
capable of the love without the expense. And so they do not
love people because they need them. They love people because
they are easy to love and they have good times with them. Period!

Then there are the people who love each other because they read
the Bible to each other because they need to be together by the
Word of God. And those kinds of people, which we are-
they love each other as I speak for myself because they need them.

And to think of God's Word as an indulgence is a tough one. Period.