Lent 2020 day 5

’Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.’ (John 1:12)

There you are by @GideonHeugh :

Free from ambition,
from the desire to please,
free from striving and straining
and the need to succeed;
free from the rat race,
from the struggle to be first,
free from grasping and clutching
and the ego’s desperate thirst;
free from vanity,
from wearing a false face,
free from image and status
and pride’s fruitless chase;
free from possessions,
from diluting life with stuff,
free from others saying
that you aren’t enough;
free from your past,
from any bruise or scar,
free from guilt, free from shame –
there you are.