A Necessary Autumn Inside Each - Rumi

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Dear friends,

 

Rumi Is. Teachers and gurus and beloveds

are ever-present instructing silently and Loving us so deeply and so

incredibly tenderly. We are so very blessed. Grace. Gee whiz.

 

 

You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the way

we have to go, words

 

are no preparation. There is no getting ready, other than

grace. My faults

 

have stayed hidden. One might call that a preparation!

I have one small drop

 

of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.

There are so many threats to it.

 

Inside each of us, there's continual autumn. Our leaves

fall and are blown out

 

over the water. A crow sits in the blackened limbs and talks

about what's gone. Then

 

your generosity returns: spring, moisture, intelligence, the

scent of hyacinth and rose

 

and cypress. Joseph is back! And if you don't feel in

yourself the freshness of

 

Joseph, be Jacob! Weep and then smile. Don't pretend to know

something you haven't experienced.

 

There's a necessary dying, and then Jesus is breathing again.

Very little grows on jagged

 

rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up

where you are. You've been

 

stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

 

~Rumi

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie