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Whatever happens (in 2021)

A poem from Rumi to open the new year, with love to all who read these words. 

whatever happens 
to the world around
show me your purpose
show me your source

even if the world 
is Godless and in chaos
show me your anchor
show me your love

if there is hunger
if there is famine
show me your harvest
show me your resource

if life is bitter
everywhere snakes everywhere poison
show me your garden
show me your meadow

if the sun and the moon fall
if darkness rules the world
show me your light
show me your flame

if I have no mouth 
or tongue to utter
words of your secrets
show me your fountain

I'll keep silence
how can I express 
your life when mine 
still is untold.

Rumi

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What the eternal thought wills

Words of the day, courtesy of the sublime George Macdonald. 


Prudence

The one secret of life and  development is not to devise and plan 
but to fall in with the forces at  work - to do every moment's duty aright -
that being the part  in the process allotted  to  us: 
and let come - not  what will,  for there is no such thing - 
but what the eternal thought  wills  for each of us,
 has intended in each of us from the first.
G.M.