renewal. again?

and again and again.

Sometimes I look at my life and think what the heck am I doing here. The way I treat situations resembles that of a five year old whose ice cream cone has just tragically dropped into the dirt. Then God stops me (I do believe in the power of stopping time), and tells me exactly what it is I'm doing.

Learning.

Once again, nothing to be sorry for.

"I know you wish you could hear me, sometimes that's so hard to do.
I know you wish you could see me, but that's the way it has to be.
Some day you will understand, don't you lose your faith in me."



I'm reading a new book: "Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West." It's pretty neat. I'm learning what to see as Truth and what to see as lies. It's good to know the difference between the two. Here are some quotes I've found especially True.

"No one knows his name-a man who lives on the streets and walks around in rags. Once I saw that man in a dream. He and God were constructing an extraordinary temple."
This is a good quote, hypothetically. Interestingly, it came from a woman, Rabia, who claimed to be a female Islamic saint. I find truth in it because God does find the least of those on earth as the highest in Heaven. There is so much beauty in constructing a temple with God. Why do we put so much energy into our earthly temples?

"Darkness is an unlit wick; it just needs your touch, Beloved, to become a sacred flame. And what sadness in this world could endure if it looked into your eyes?"

"Such love does the sky now pour, that whenever I stand in a field, I have to wring out the light when I get home."

"Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment."

"If God said, 'Rumi, pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, not any act, I would not bow down to."

"How can you look so needy - God is growing in fields you own.