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Beginning our Lenten Pilgrimage 

2/28/2017

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This week the Tuesday Morning Mindfulness group prayed with a poem by Hafiz, entitled "The Seed Cracked Open." As we enter into the Lenten Season, may the spirit of Hafiz's insight and playfulness with God ground our prayer and action.

‘It used to be
That when I would wake in the morning
I could with confidence say,
”What am ‘I’ going to
Do?”

That was before the seed
Cracked open.

Now Hafiz is certain:

There are two of us housed
In this body,
Doing the shopping together in the market and
Tickling each other
While fixing the evening’s food.

Now when I awake
All the internal instruments play the same music:
​
”God, what love-mischief can ‘We’ do
For the world
Today?”

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Esperanza S. Pedrin
3/1/2017 09:11:07 am

I do like the poem

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