“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?”
~Hafiz
On Sunday morning we began our worship with these words of the Sufi poet Hafiz. We almost always begin our morning together with poetry and song. Often the poems are chosen to fit the theme of scripture that will later be read. Other times the words are meant to welcome and ground people in the moment, in the community. To stop, be present, let go of whatever has dogged us already that day and be in a different time and rhythm for at least the next hour. Whatever has been pressing can almost surely wait for at least that long.
This Sunday’s poem was chosen to offer a bit of a light spirit, a smile, a chance to realize once again that being light-hearted with others in worship can go a long way in healing the soul. It was also meant to remind us of the ways in which we never travel life’s path alone even when we think we want to do so. Even when we think we are capable of it. Even when we think we must. This gift of an incarnational God will have none of that. Flesh and bone, blood, water and spirit. This is how the Holy shows up. Even when we forget or want to turn our pretty little heads.
Over the last weeks I have been in the presence of folks who have been knee deep in remembering that this journey we call life is not a solo act. I have been blessed to observe and participate in the care it takes to be young and old. The fragility of these earth homes, our bodies, is a miraculous thing and frightful at times. From babies to elders we need each other to make so much work….eating, sleeping, playing, laughing, crying, caring. Often this looks like burdensome work until its laced through with love and grace and mercy.
It is always at these times, these fragile times, when we have the opportunity to notice the presence of the Holy not just moving in a situation but actually in ‘us’. We find courage and hope and strength we never knew we had to carry out acts we had hoped to never do, didn’t think we had the power to do. This is ‘love-mischief’ playing with us. Sneaking in and causing us to remember once again that this stage we play on is one big chorus number not the solo performance we imagined.
What love-mischief are you being called to on these warm, summer days? How are you remembering once again to play well with others for your own healing and the healing of the world?
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