<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 3, 2024, at 3:52 PM, Jima Abbott via Thespiritexpress <<a href="mailto:thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I was talking to a dear friend this afternoon about my experience with holding circle in Tuesday’s Spirit house group. She reminded me of a Rumi poem that may be a favorite among many of us and one that I believe applies to yesterdays “lesson”. And yes Victoria, I often also feel Toni could be reading a cookbook, how about the Joy of Cooking, and with our intentions we would create “magic”. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks Carlie, Dennis</div><div class=""><p style="border: 0px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "libre baskerville"; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52);" class="">The poem is called “A Great Wagon,” and the middle verse is </p><p style="border: 0px; color: rgb(52, 52, 52); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "libre baskerville"; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; margin: 15px 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52);" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">there is a field. I’ll meet you there.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">When the soul lies down in that grass,</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">the world is too full to talk about.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Ideas, language, even the phrase “each other”</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">doesn’t make any sense.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Don’t go back to sleep.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">You must ask for what you really want.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Don’t go back to sleep.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">People are going back and forth across the doorsill</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">where the two worlds touch.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">The door is round and open.</em><br style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-family: "open sans", Arial, sans-serif; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class=""><em style="border: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; outline: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;" class="">Don’t go back to sleep.”</em></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">Thespiritexpress mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org" class="">Thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org</a><br class="">http://lists.mcn.org/mailman/listinfo/thespiritexpress<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>