Today is Friday, the day when Muslims the world over go to their local mosque to pray together, as Christians go to church on Sundays.The readings today are poem-prayers by Rumi, the Sufi Muslim poet who has for centuries delighted and opened the hearts of people all over the world, of all faiths. Savor these words with me:
"Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey
to the ocean of meanings.
The stream knows it can't stay on the mountain.
Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go,
in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full."
Some nights, stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted into the light.
Stars burn clear all night.
Do that yourself, and a spring will rise in the dark
with water your deepest thirst is for.
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