Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth;
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
—Revelation 21.1
The year has passed away.
Into its funeral pyre I throw my calendar.
All that has happened to me has happened.
I offer up the sacrifice of my regret.
All I have done, and all I have not done,
are gone now. I let them rest.
Only the great hymn remains:
“You are forgiven. You are beloved.
You are free.”
My victories are part of me;
I need not cling or rehearse.
I am who I am now.
I will not change the past.
I am in the present.
Letting go, I am held.
I am free to enter the future,
one moment at a time.
Letting go, I am held.
Breath prayer:
Held … free
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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