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What is it that I yearn for?
What holds me in the mire?
What weighs me down with deep regret?
What makes my spirit tire?
It need no longer hold me,
It need not bring defeat,
Relinquishment is what it takes
To get me on my feet.
To hold it causes sorrow,
Despair, depression, too,
And I must simply give it up,
Begin my life anew.
My anxious thoughts won't change it,
A prison I create,
I give it to the One who frees,
Who can remove the weight.
Why clutch this thing that keeps me bound?
Why hold it as a treasure?
When I decide to give it up
His peace I cannot measure.
God's burdens are not heavy,
What He allows, He holds,
And as I learn to lean on Him
What's best He ne'er withholds.
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