Rumi: Today, Like Every Other Day

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
 -- Rumi

Today's guidance from The Rumi Card Book: 

Category: Birth -- Love has come to rule and transform. Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.  Be acutely aware of the hidden teachings and blessings you are about to receive.

Category description from the book:  "Each moment of our lives is potentially a new birth, if our hearts are open.  Rumi always claimed that the wind of grace is always blowing from God, but that we are too rarely open to its fertile power.  Nevertheless, through Divine generosity, signs of new birth constantly dance in and out of our lives, inviting us to hope, creativity, passion, and praise!

Today, Like Every Other Day



Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened.  Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading.  Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

translated by John Moyne and Coleman Barks, http://colemanbarks, com