Upon Learning Forgiveness

Upon Learning Forgiveness

Forgiveness forges fires within my heart

Expanding my soul into wondrous flight

Grasping for Heaven with severe intention

Dreaming the hostage is now free

Forgiveness thunderously crashes through my soul

Waves embracing the ragged shores of

A life complicated in simplicity

Opportunity how you have knocked at my heart

Drenching my spirit with the wetness of love

Bleeding into passages unknown

Yet known - scary, dark and gloomy

Forgiveness extending, bursting with light

Brightly seeping beyond chasms of thought

Growing hope and nurturing faith

I awaken in a gasp for air beneath waters of despair

Forgiveness pulls me back from the ledge

Opening vision, seeing fantasies of misery

I’m forgiving the world of all its strife

I’m forgiving me of nebulous dreams

Breathing and living the truth of life

Allowing healing, expanding beyond

The littleness that had me bound

By Maryanne Mesple

June 2016

Inspired by ACIM

This Dream

This Dream

(Original artwork by David Mesple. Title: Ha10-43 - Graphite on gessoed canvas 50" x 72")

I never danced upon a million stars

Yet in my dreams I do

My heart never beat a billion times

Yet in my dreams it does

I am not here in this world

And Never was and yet

I dream of you and I

Of suffering and pain

I dream of our escape

This dream carries us toward the stars

Toward where God exist beyond

Beyond this dream of mine  - of ours

Beyond what can be envisioned

Awakened in the dark by Light

A Light intensely devouring my heart

A Light dissolving all darkened images 

Collapsing time and space

Purging my wild imaginings

I am with God and always was

In a place one chooses not to dream

I let go of all that is not real

 Embracing God’s singularity

I cannot suffer nor can I cry

Over nightmarish fantasies

For God’s true gifts to us all

Are love, Peace, Joy and Forgiveness

Throughout Eternity

Poem by Maryanne Mesple June 2016

Inspired by A Course in Miracles and
Gary Renard's book, Love has Forgotten 
No One - The Answer To Life

June 2016