Without Translation

Mission Trip poem

There are over seven thousand languages in the world

spread across nearly two hundred countries.

Yet when I hear your laugh

I’m reminded that the entire world shares one language:

Love.

I may not speak your language.

Or know even the simplest phrase

but a smile can show me the world.

And I may not ever learn

Or even form a sentence

Still a hug needs no translation.

Because when we truly care

And put others first

Doesn’t that say enough?

Doesn’t that say more?

We don’t need an essay

Or a paragraph from our lips

All we need is willing hearts

Overflowing with love

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Matthew 28:19-20

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 13:1