by Jane Tawel
Laura – pixels.com
Will We Rise?
By Jane Tawel
June 18, 2021
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Will we find enough band-aides today,
to staunch flows of our enemies’ blood?
Will we march enough steps today,
to dam prejudicial floods?
And when tomorrow our children ask
if we raised our hands to the holy task
of reviving the World’s needy honor,
and repairing our own little corner
of broken parts and hurting hearts,
will we lie in the ashes
of our own set fires?
Or rise like a phoenix from grace-infused pyres?
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Will my mind today shut-down from its reeling
at the Earth’s burning? I’m fearfully feeling
we’ll all die from our greed
and the unanswered need
of a world that craves desperate healing.
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Create in me a new heart.
One that beats to the Earth’s Special Song.
Today I will do my own part
to be Love, to be One, to Belong.
Amen and amen, let us say once again,
We did once, and we will!
We did once, and we will!
We did then;
we will do it again!
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Will we make enough headway tomorrow
to end Our World’s war-weary sorrow?
Will we have had enough
of the proud and the tough?
And instead choose the meek
and all follow, like sheep,
The Good Shepherd, Who loves us so much?
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Time ticks and it tocks
and even the rocks
now cry out — “Hosanna!
Please, Save us!” Each man and
each woman and child;
every beast, tame or wild,
are looking ahead,
to the “Anti-Love Dread”
of the end of All Life as we know it.
(We certainly seem to have blown it.)
But we’ll fight! — Some will fight!
Young and old, we just might,
win the day over night
and a New World Reborn — we will grow it.
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We vow today to stand together.
We take today this solemn pledge:
We will fight war with Peace.
We will fight lies with Truth.
We will kill greed with sharing,
and meet needs by our caring.
We will change hate with love.
We will rise, young and old
One day our tale will be told,
How the World almost died,
But Love made it Arise!
We shall rise!
We shall rise!
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Earth will rise,
like a Phoenix, She’ll Rise!
We shall rise like a Savior,
we’ll rise!
And Our God will arise.
Like a Cooled Sun, He’ll Rise!
Like a Bright Star, She’ll Rise!
And All Goodness shall Rise,
They shall rise!
They shall rise!
They shall rise!
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Like a New Day that Dawns,
Love Shall Rise!
With sacrificial protection,
We shall become Resurrection.
Will we start today?
Will we find The Way?
Will we Rise Up?
Will we Rise Up?
Will we Rise?
God! I pray, we will rise…
(c) Jane Tawel 2021
Jane Tawel 
Usherung in hope, truth, love and light 💛🌠🙏😊 beautiful words to match your beautiful heart dear Jane. My prayers echo yours here. Love to you dear friend ❤
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I was thinking about you this morning, when I was thinking about angels.
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I love that 😇 as I regularly am channeling our holiest ones. I’m brought to tears with the love and trust they bestow upon me to be shared with all. Love you dear Jane 💙
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The words which resound over and over are
Create in me a new heart.
Very very profound
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Thank you. Yes, we so often think we have no control over our feelings / heart, do we not? And yet God says, he can create even a new heart within an old body. Hallelujah!
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so true. I have seen much. i believe in what you say
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amen we said
even deep purple
lauded HIm
allelujiah
the prawn
meself
a pawn to ego
ad infinitum
tantum ergo sum
rene
do you know
how long it took to show!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ah yes… that last line of yours seems to reverberate daily within me — “how long it took to show.” Read a lovely thing today: Jesus didn’t ask us to be better, he asked us to be new. I too wonder, how long will that take in me? How long? Thank you for reading and as always your dialogue with me that is so bracing. Shalom, to you Utahan15
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peace. just John here Jane. and my late de facto guress Geraldine Pratt, my old english teacher.
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Your comment makes me happy on many levels. First, John it is. Secondly, as some one who is to many, “an old English teacher”, I love your sharing your teacher’s remembrance and ongoing gift in your own writing abilities with me. And finally, it is always a joy for me to journey with you in thought and struggle, word and expression. Thank you and shalom to you as well, Jane
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that was a piece on peace then. yw. double entendres no extra.
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We will rise. We will rise. Your words soothe my soul today. I awoke with thoughts, not from God, about the very conditions you bring to light in your beautiful words. You are so gifted my friend. I will keep this to read. I stand with you! Stay safe and healthy. Peace and blessings, Karla 🤍
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Thank you, humbly thank you. Oh, how I relate to that you said, “I awoke with thoughts, not from God” today. How, how often do I go to bed and rise with “thoughts not form God”. I think of that Psalm, “God, Your thoughts are not our thoughts, Your ways are not our ways”. Reading Abraham Joshua Heschel today on the vast difference between “knowlege” and “understanding” in terms of the ineffable and especially in our need to Understand God intuitively more than Know Him intellectually. How to let go though, eh? How to let go? Night and morning to carry baggage with me that I have no ability to understand, let alone “fix”. Well, I am afraid no answers really here from me today except that the answer lies in following the example of Jesus and “being still and understanding that I AM, God”. May your burden be lightened and your joy be in the understanding that you are loved. Period. Blessings to you, Jane
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I’ve screenshot this message from you. You so beautifully explain that which cannot be explained! “God, your thoughts are not our thoughts!” “Being still and understanding that I AM!” Amen my friend. Blessings to you! 💚❤️💛
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Love to you Karla and thanks to you for the words of your blessing. There is a white stone with your name on it waiting to reveal all that you have meant to the world, and as you persevere in that greatest task of all — having faith. May you have joy in your journey today, Jane
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Love the “we will” vows!! Great to catch up with your powerful and compassionate words.
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Thank you so much. You are so wise and astute –yes, vows — they get a bad rap sometimes in our modern world. I am glad you understood. Shalom, Jane
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