Saturday, 1 September 2018

Where to find God

This morning, I discovered some passages by Khalil Gibran, whose work I first saw in a quote from the OA For Today daily reader.  In his work, The Prophet, he wrote:
When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather,"I am in the heart of God." And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
and this:
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody. But how shall I, unless you yourselves be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers of all your elements?
and then this:
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; and you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And as I can feel autumn in the air, the calendar ticks over to the new month of September, I hold in my heart my faith and I feel overwhelmed by love.

Blessed be.