by Jane Tawel
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Forgivin’ is Livin’
By Jane Tawel
November 19, 2022
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Forgive my assumptions
that lead me to doubt
that You have guided and gifted me.
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Forgive my forgetting
the times that pure Grace
was all that protected and lifted me.
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Forgive my instructions
that force You to choose
whether Your will or my will is done.
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Forgive me the most
for the things that I boast of
while neglecting it all came through grace.
And help me, today,
to walk in a New Way,
that one day, We may stand face to Face.
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Forgive that I choose
to be lazy or greedy
and to live in a life based on fear.
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May I do what is hardest,
and forgive me, Myself;
to stop looking outside me,
for there’s nothing to right me,
but the Love that’s inside me,
and has always been here.
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Forgiving is freeing
You, you, and you.
Forgiving is seeing
that all that is True,
is Faith, Hope, and Love—
all the rest will be past,
and all that will last,
is whatever I’ve given
to bring to earth, Heaven.
Oh! “for-givin’” is livin’
in Eternity now.
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“Go, now, your sins are forgiven. Which is harder to say? Your body is healed or your soul is healed? You have forgiven yourself in the same measure that you have forgiven others. Forgive yourself as We forgive you. Forgive, and Live.” (Paraphrased from The Wise One)
© Jane Tawel, 2022
Jane Tawel 
Divine grace. 💜 I always hope people will forgive me for any hurts I may have caused inadvertently. I’m doing the best I can in any given moment. This really struck a chord with me as a non-neurotypical person with c-ptsd that struggles with navigating triggers, social awkwardness and communication skills.
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out they came
and it would never be the same
again
in death
he was cremated and in an urn
my wish
was for them to shut up
and go away
tomorrow and today
he s dead
and is on his way to the sky
that is why they should shaddup
and not wonder why
oh!
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This sounds much as how I felt last summer when my mother passed away. It taught me a lot about the need and gift of a silence.
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yes quiet. i went to mass and ran into a funeral and the decedant s friends and family were not only not catholic , but did not know how to be quiet. i thought damn it fr sam next time have the funeral separate from your saturday liturgy. ty.
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btw may she rip .
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Jane life is short. I hope your day has joy. thanks for the posts, they are snippets of who you are. i would have enjoyed being your student.
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