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
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