Week 2

 Second meeting: 

• What barriers do I notice in myself to being loud in a conviction? In what moments does my faith require this of me?

Each Note

 

God picks up the reed-flute world and blows.

Each note is a need coming through one of us

a passion, a longing-pain.

 

Remember the lips

where the wind-breath note originated,

and let your note be clear.

Don’t try to end it.

Be your note.

I’ll show you how it’s enough.

 

Go up on the roof at night

in this city of the soul.

Let everyone climb on their roofs

and sing their notes!

Sing loud!

Jalāl, Al-Dīn Rūmī. “Each Note.” The Essential Rumi. Trans. Coleman Barks. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1995

 

Give over Thine Own Willing

 

Give over thine own willing;

give over thine own running;

give over thine own desiring

to know or to be anything;

and sink down to the seed

which God sows in the heart...

 

Isaac Pennington - 1661