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Sabbath Time

Where is God? I yearn to find
this keeper of the Truth divine.
Daily, struggle marks my days.
There must be a better way.

You need not explain or plead.
Make the space: God knows your need.
Release each challenge you now face.
Close your eyes for they will wait.

Pause within the busyness.
Gift yourself with blessed rest.
Still the mind of outer thought.
Sacred space cannot be sought.

Learn the Sabbath gift of time
away from self-made daily grinds.
Tasks will always wait in line
when you rest in Sabbath time.

Here within this tranquil space
are blessings rich in sacred grace.
Ageless wisdom you will find
when you rest in Sabbath time.

by Jeanne Loehnis, April 2004

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Release, Move On

Yesterday is but a memory if I let it be.
Yesterday is sure to haunt me if I cling on desperately.
Yesterday is full of actions that I would soon forget.
Focusing on yesterday is living in regret.

Letting go of past mistakes is vital to my life.
Releasing, too, the blessings clears the path to see the light.
Releasing all behind me I can now anticipate
for there ahead, in front of me, experience awaits.

Joyfully I find myself completely in the now.
Free to move with ease so I let Spirit show me how
to invest more fully in my life. This now I say:
focus on the path ahead. Be present to this day!

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On Winds of Day

Deep inside I harbor fear:
emotions born in yesteryear.
I’ll not let go, it’s packed in tight:
pain that’s ready for a fight.

You gently ask me to begin
to crack the door and enter in.
Shed some light on ancient past.
Seen clearly it can never last.

“No, I won’t!”, my screams are loud.
I’ll not face the inner crowd.
Enemies as big as day!
I’ll not hear what they might say.

You then gently nudge again.
“What can happen, my dear friend,
if you hear the inner cry,
the life you knew in years gone by?”

“Yes, dear child, you’ve held firm
to memories both dark and grim.
You alone can break the chain:
release each thought that gives you pain.”

“I will hold your hand all night,
keep you safe till morning light,
bring sweet peace to grace the day
as you travel on your way.”

Let winds of day now freely blow
and with the wind your sorrows go.
Watch your pain now travel on;
dissipate with light of dawn.

Waken to the blessed morn.
Your sweet soul has been reborn.
“Now” the only moment yours.
On winds of day your spirit soars.

by Jeanne Loehnis, April 2004

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Love’s Blessed Peace

Let go of personality.
Release set plans and will.
Turn within where God resides.
Be patient and be still.

As a drop of water
gives its very form and shape
to the sea of droplets infinite
so may we now forsake

attachment to the body;
all emotion now release.
Unite as one in Spirit
and receive Love’s blessed peace.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2007

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In My Heart of Hearts

In my heart of hearts
I want nothing more
than to reach beyond the wall:
walk straight through the door.
In my heart of hearts
I am standing tall.
Facing possibilities,
I have no fear at all

Funny how I’ve stood
so many times before
face to face unto this wall
and never seen a door.

The wall’s a line unto the sand
that limits what I see.
I focus on the life in view:
reducing possibility.

I’ve drawn this line unto the sand,
turned my back so I’ll not see
the realms that stretch before me:
life’s true immensity.

If but one breath I’d blow
across the line that I’ve embraced,
In just that instant I would find
the line to be erased.

So simple yet I hesitate
my line now to release.
Yet when I do I’ll find myself
enfolded in sweet peace.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2007