* If-Only’s, What-if’s, and Now By Jane Tawel May 24, 2023 * The “If-only’s” stuck inside create a life-time of regret. We become unaware that we have created our own unhealthiness — Re-gretting. Re-griefing. Re-gurgitating. And we bring it all back up, again, and again, like bile, like vomit, like…

by Jane Tawel * Love is the Ocean. Jump In! By Jane Tawel May 19, 2023 * They say in heaven there will be no more seas. And I thought, “That would be a loss.” Until I realized all Truth speaks metaphorically. There is no need to see an ocean…

A poem by Jane Tawel * Returning True Self to True God By Jane Tawel May 4, 2023 * I lie down in fear and awake in fear, the fear of not being enough. I stumble over the thoughts that trip, the memories or doubts that trip me up. And…

I first heard this song by Mary Gauthier, called “Mercy Now” on some Australian series I can’t remember the name of now. Love the words…

* Hold on to Doubt By Jane Tawel April 22, 2023 * “They are not allowed to judge you,” I tell myself. “Not anymore.” “Not then, not now, not ever,” Truth says to me. “I allow them to judge me because I had, I have, no faith,” I say to…

* Missing You By Jane Tawel April 19, 2023 * As I sit here, trying to wake, I’m still in shock that you are gone. And all of you is gone, and you and you and you are truly gone. * Oh, the missing of you is a beating stone, …

Acceptance By Jane Tawel April 13, 2023 * Listening to rain, in the still dark morning. And yesterday, a card came, not too late, to wish me happiness, and so, with a bit of habitual misgiving, I accepted. * There is nothing to do but accept. And so, I turn…

Auschwitz, America, and Jesus on the Cross * Auschwitz, America, and Jesus on the Cross By Jane Tawel April 8, 2023 * My title sounds kind of like a long string of swear words, doesn’t it? Maybe all swear words come from the cry of the heart to understand and the realization that gosh darn it, I…

Remember. Six times a year, our family lights candles for Gram, and for Grandma and Grandpa Tawel. Birth and Death. Life and Love. Remember all who have come before you and made you who are. The Hebrew Bible is full of loving reminders, admonishes, and encouragements to Remember. The God…