a human heart in need

I carry gifts today from the kings of fish, beasts,

birds, and angels.  I carry gifts today from rivers,

seas, fields, star, and from every soul, from

every soul that will ever be

God, let us know what you first saw that made

You want to do this, create a human heart so in need

Let us know, Beloved, that there is only Light.

                                         Hafiz (p.61 A Year with Hafiz)

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I spent this day with precious souls

old souls

young souls

energetic souls

and tired ones

hopeful ones

and one’s not quite so quite so

expectant about what the road ahead

might bring

there were liberal folk

and conservative ones too

we carried into a Sacred space

each one of us

a plethora

of thoughts and feels

we carried with us faith

not the same faith exactly

for there are indeed varieties of

religious experience

in as we gathered

pain flowed

so did joy

together we sought

the Presence

together we received

the gift of Light

and together we learned

that the way it happens

this miracle of communion

is by having soft hearts

vulnerable hearts

hearts in need

hard hearts won’t work

don’t work

because we are made

to open

permeable

holey

perhaps even leaky?

we are made

so that all that is Sacred

can get in

and all that is Sacred

call it Light

call it Love

can flow out

to those around us

touching them

while they

with their own soft

and sometimes broken hearts

touch us

and in all of that it happens

healing

generosity

kindness

love

and I think

I really do

this is what God had in mind