“Small hands lifted high
Seven loaves of bread
A few salty fish
Hardly enough to feed
Himself.
Yet, he does not
hesitate
To offer it all
For the sake
Of another.”
The Seven Virtues were created to combat each of the Seven Deadly Sins. These Seven Virtues first appeared tied together in an epic poem titled Pschomachia, written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, a Christian governor of the 400s AD. To battle Greed, there is Charity.
Charity can be seen as the act of giving. However, in a more Christian-centered defition, Charity is love and kindness toward others, even if they do not deserve it. Aquinas attributed Charity to the love of God. This charitable poem was inspired by the act that took place in John 6.
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Loved it 👌✨
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Thank you!
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I hope everyone can be like that, I hope we can all be selfless at least every now and then.
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Writing these poems has been a great reminder and encouragement to myself to exercise virtues of patience and kindness and charity and love.
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Powerful message, well crafted! I may be biased because I also really like those verses this poem was inspired by.
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Thank you so much Ethan! It is an amazing story that we grow up on and simply accept as children but when we grow up and really think about what it must have meant for this little boy to willingly give away everything he had… The story is much more impressive and meaningful.
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Definitely love your way of retelling the story of the loaves and fish!
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Thank you Heather! I think it’s good to rethink some of these old stories that we’ve heard hundreds of times. It really helps to bring about new insight. For instance, if that had been me, would I have been willing to give up everything I had?
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Nicely done. I love that you’re following up the sins with the virtues 🙂
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Thank you! I never even thought about it until I was wrapping up with the sins but now it seems like such an obvious thing to do.
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