I have a request from the sister of a deceased special friend of mine, Ken Knox.
She wants the poem “Love Anyway” I wrote and have used in my “Anyway Series”!
Glad to do it! Ken was a “down to earth, no nonsense gospel preacher”; always came to the Tulsa workshop every year. I was privileged to know him!

Love Anyway!
If you give yourself to love, you may get hurt; love anyway!
If you love people they may not love you back; love anyway!
If you open your heart to others, some will invade it and vandalize it!
Open your heart anyway!
If you allow yourself to love unconditionally, you may find that others
may love you with many conditions; love unconditionally anyway!
If you love your fellow man some may misunderstand;
Love your fellow man anyway.
If you love romantically you may get burned;
Love romantically anyway!
There are those who are dangerous to love.
There are those with whom you should not be in love.
Be a loving person anyway.
Love will bring many thorns and scars along the way.
Love will not be returned every time.
But love is the only path worth travelling.
Love brings ecstasies nothing else will.
So love…..love anyway!
Ask God’s help to love often and well!
For it is better to have not lived…
Than to have not loved!
Marvin Phillips, April 1999