Hafiz, the poet, shares a lesson on love
Hafiz, the poet, writes this, “I know the way you can get when you have not had a drink of love. Your face hardens. Your sweet muscles cramp. Children become concerned about a strange look that appears in your eyes which even begins to worry your own mirror and knows. Even angels fear that brand of madness that arrays itself against the world. Oh the way I know that you can get if you have not been out drinking love.”
Our opportunity today, and really our responsibility today, is to drink from love’s presence. To let it in. To know that we are so loved in the midst of and in the presence of everything that is our life this day. So he says, “This is why all the great ones speak of the vital need to keep remembering God. So you will come to know and see Him as being so playful and wanting, just wanting to help. Bring your cup near me, dear one. Bring your cup near me for all I care about is quenching your thirst for freedom.” I know the way you can get if you have been out drinking love.” Let this be a day of drinking in the love.
