I'm going to try to start up some weekly features on my blog. Starting this week - and hopefully continuing each week, I'm going to post a new poem, passage, reflection that I find about God's love, since something I've been thinking about lately is that my own life's mission - at its core -is to tell people how much God loves them.
This week's poem is "A Lover Who Wants His Lovers Near" by Rabia, in Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West by Daniel Ladinsky.
A LOVER WHO WANTS HIS LOVERS NEAR
He is
sweet that way,
trying to coax the world to dance.
Look how the wind holds the trees in its hands
helping them to
sway.
Look how the sky takes the fields and the oceans
and our bodies in its arms, and moves
all beings toward
His lips.
God must get hungry for us; why is He not also
a lover who wants His lovers
near?
Beauty
is my teacher
helping me to know He
cares for
me.
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