Gracious Embrace

I was delighted with myself,
having offered everything I had:
my heart, my faith, my work.

“And who are you,” you said,
“to think you have so much to offer?
It seems you have forgotten
where you’ve come from.”

Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks

A sweetness entered my awareness as I opened the front door. Immediately, the inner grumpiness dissipated with an infusion of fresh early morning air. The mood change had come about because I had arisen an hour earlier than my biorhythms had expected. It...