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Give Me Peace

January 20, 2014 By Juanita Ryan 1 Comment

Give me peace,
not a hopeless resignation,
giving into the darkness,
but a growing certainty that
one day Light will dawn.

Give me peace,
not a deadening novocain
that robs outrage,
but a quiet awareness of Presence
in the angst of the day.

Give me peace,
not a passionless state
of not-seeing, not knowing,
but a fierce, calm clarity
about what matters most.

Give me peace,
not a smugness or pretense,
but an internal sense of being held
that allows me to live as outrageously
as one who is loved might live.

——

Peace I leave with you;
my peace I give you.
John 14:27

From Heaven at my Door by Juanita Ryan

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  1. Becky says

    January 24, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    Juanita it is my pleasure to just let you Know how very much i am always excited to wake up each morning to read what you have to say
    From day to day:))
    I am a recoverying drug addict. I got addicted to my pain-killers From
    Three past Back surgerys, Back In the later 80’s to earlier 90’s.
    I won’t lie to you, it is a struggle each & every day!
    If it weren’t for having The Lord In my life i wouldn’t through!
    I lost my daughter Back In 2010 to diabetis & kindness failure, Stacey Was Only 36

    Reply

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