Take Me With You Everywhere You Go

(Love/God speaking to us....)

Don't go anywhere without me. Let nothing happen in the sky apart from me, or on the ground, in this world or that world,without my being in its happening. Vision, see nothing I don't see. Language, say nothing. The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that with me. Be the rose nearest to the thorn that I am.

I want to feel myself in you when you taste food, in the arc of your mallet when you work, when you visit friends, when you go up on the roof by yourself at night.

(rumi/us to Love/God)

There's nothing worse than to walk out along the street without you. I don't know where I'm going. You're the road, and the knower of roads, more than maps, more than love.

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"The Essential Rumi" Coleman Barks
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I love me some Rumi!
(notes in pink and emphasis in turquoise by Keren)

Graceful Gratitude

I've been thinking a lot about gratitude lately, and after reading Keren's most recent post it came to mind again.

Grateful. Graceful. Full of grace. I wonder, sometimes, how grateful God is. Maybe God is gratefulness becuase God is graceful, full of grace.

It's almost too much to imagine...God being grateful. God saying "thank you." Not that God needs to be grateful or owes us any word of thanks. It's just that God's overflow of grace (it seems to me) would abound with gratitude for our companionship, our friendship, our love. And just maybe God's gratitude is expressed through us as we express our gratitude gracefully.