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The 10,000 foot view

You are facing yet another task with “I don’t want to do this.” showing up in your being. What are you choices? You can:

  • blow it off – just don’t do it
  • ignore your discomfort and do it anyway
  • take out your frustration on the nearest bystander who has no clue what you are reacting to

Each of these will have an impact on you and those around you, yes? One more option: Take in the view from 10,000 feet. Yes, stop and put your imagination to work. Rise above the task, the discomfort, the frustration, the moment. What will the impact from my decision be at days’ end, next week, next year, ten years from now? What is the grand purpose of which this action is a small part?

What does the 10,000 foot view suggest?

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You Don’t Know Me

You don’t know me, I have changed –
inside, my thoughts, all rearranged.
Confused awhile yet now I place
less stock in what the mind creates.

I see with eyes which look beyond
the rules defining human bonds.
The Soul which lives as me, as you,
is not confined to trite “I do”

for It loves all as Soul connection
seeks to further Life’s intention.
Simply growth, awareness, joy,
not perfection, wealth or ploy.

You don’t know me, here as Soul,
present to the sacred whole.
Yet I see you as you are –
ever changing, reaching far.

Human paths we travel on,
side by side from dusk till dawn.
Souls they journey, free to fly –
unique and precious, you and I.

by Jeanne Loehnis, May 2012

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Vision

When we look within, instead of without,
and we focus on Truth instead of doubt,
when our vision is free from fear and strife
and we live each new day with the whole in sight…

When we learn there is only One Source of the Light:
One Presence, One Power, One day and One night,
and we choose to unite in all that we are
with the wisdom we’ve seen looking on from afar…

‘Tis then that we travel on Spirit’s strong wings
together forever. This union it brings
a clarity only the heart can discern
and we know that this Now has lessons we’ll learn.

We open ourselves and we trust as we take
each next step; we’re guided through each passing day.
And as we pause to listen, we know
the Presence of Spirit. We’re One with the whole.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2008

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Two Streams

Two streams, flowing, yours and mine,
co-mingled with sweet Spirit Divine.
Never again the same we’ll be
for blended we are: you’re part of me.

Though we’ll split, diverge again,
gently lean around the bend,
two streams forever touched are we
by our sacred unity.

2006

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Peace For A Price

Everyone around the globe
deserves a life serene:
safe, well fed, and free to be
the love which they believe.

But all must pay a price that’s steep;
world peace will not come free.
Each of us must do our part.
Peace starts with you and me.

Payment made through war and strife
and persons killed in vain
is not the price I’m thinking of.
For war I do disdain.

The price of peace requires
of each person on the earth
time devoted to the Truth
that every life has worth.

All whose human heart does beat
must dwell within to know
the peace which knows no boundaries:
knows the oneness of all souls.

Then bring each must to daily tasks
the knowledge of the heart.
Guided by Love’s vision pure:
Sweet peace to all impart.

By Jeanne Loehnis, 2004