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Courage

As the lion found within himself that courage ever dwells,
so I have excavated and my soul it now reveals
courage long forgotten after years of gross neglect.
Yet, dusted off and now embraced, it leads. For time has kept

its latent strength undamaged, its potency, yet pure.
With courage, cradled now in prayer, each step I can endure.
I walk into the world with ease, no need have I for fear.
That foe of creativity is no longer welcome here.

Courage, now and always, ever mine as I but choose
to feel its presence deeply, then walk on within its shoes.
Courage as my foothold leaves me free to flow with ease.
Now the challenges before me are great possibilities!

Walking in the world today with courage at my side,
I freely now reveal all that in me I used to hide.
With courage as my partner, Divine Mind my constant guest,
dreams that grow within me are with ease made manifest!

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2008

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Confusion

Do I yearn for deeper peace
or must I energize, release?
Need I further go within
if I am others to enlighten?

Is the spectrum, far and wide
to be traveled, Master Guide?
If I follow, will You lead?
Clearly will I Your direction see?

Or will experiments aplenty
naught but confuse, ever torment me?
Help me see with vision clear
signs You send both far and near.

Give me courage now to follow …
move with You into tomorrow.
Each day dawning as the sun
radiates ever as the One.

Source of hope and joy and strength
I will go to any length
to complete my soul’s own journey.
Spirit, with You, I’ll not worry.

2008

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Amazing Grace (Unity style)

Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
that sings deep in my soul!
Since long before I saw the sun
with Spirit I was whole.

Through every challenge in my life
with Spirit I’ve flown free!
Sweet grace has been my constant guide.
I know sweet liberty!

Wherever life will take me next
with Spirit’s eyes I’ll see
the path that’s in the blessed flow.
With Spirit I am free!

And when as Spirit I shall fly
to worlds beyond the sun:
sweet grace you’ll hear! My soul will sing
its pure sweet freedom song.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2005

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Ah, the Busy Lives We Lead

Ah, the busy lives we lead.
Day after day we do good deeds.
Slowing seldom to catch our breath.
Never does our spirit rest.

Hurriedly moving from task to task,
wanting each to be the last.
Yet making more lists before the dawn,
reminding ourselves we’ll never be done.

When can we possibly stop to learn
for what exactly our hearts do yearn?
How can we know just how we feel
if we never get off the spinning wheel?

And Spirit, our Guide, do we consult?
Doubtful in all this moving about.
Too busy to seek the Guiding Way.
“I must keep going, keep doing.”, we say.

Here on this porch at break of day
before the sun has lit the way,
as the weekend begins its course,
I am at peace, without remorse.

I’ve come to connect with inner light,
to pause for guidance whispered, right.
Noting again the sky so vast.
Knowing my place, at rest, at last.

By Jeanne Loehnis, September 2004