Stillness

PRAYER FOR PEACE:  Monday,  December 5th, 2011 9am P.T.

FOCUS:  Stillness

You have done well

In the contest of madness.

You were brave in that holy war.

You have all the honourable wounds
Of one who has tried to find love
Where the Beautiful Bird
Does not drink.

May I speak to you
Like we are close
And locked away together?

Once I found a stray kitten
And I used to soak my fingers
In warm milk;

I came to think I was five mothers on one hand.
Wayfarer,
Why not rest your tired body?
Lean back and close your eyes.

Come morning
I will kneel by your side and feed you.
I will so gently open your mouth
And let you taste something of my
Sacred mind and life.

Surely there is something wrong
With your ideas of God

O, surely there is something wrong
With your ideas of God

If you think our Beloved

Would not be so tender.

- Rumi