Break all our teacup talk of God.
If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.
Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth . . .
The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:
Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out. ~ Hafiz
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I shared this with a friend and she immediately asked me if I had ever been manhandled by love. After explaining my experience she said, "[that] means that love was also merciful enough to place you in the hands of someone who loves you very much while it manhandled you."
So much truth in that statement. thank God for love and Greater Love.
(and here's an article on spirituality from which this poem is taken. It's soul-filling....)
1 comment:
you know the 'if you had the courage' should be changed to when you find the courage' because some of us do get dragged around
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