Poem: Whether They Know Thee or Not
Whether they know Thee or not
all creatures of the world
now and forever-without-end
bend but toward Thee.
All love for someone else
is but a whiff
of Thy perfume:
none else can be loved.
--------------- Fakhruddin ‘Araqi, 13th century Sufi contemplative poet
Proverb:
"Between God and the soul
there is no between."
---------------- Dame Julian of Norwich (ca. 13430 after 1614), 14th century mystic, anchoress, author of the first English- language books by a woman
Painting: The Confluence of the Bushkill and the Delaware, Kay WalkingStick, Cherokee artist, 2016
Prayer: Be One in Unity
Give us a blessing so that our words and actions be one in unity,
and that we be able to listen to each other, in so doing,
we shall with good heart walk hand in hand to face the future.
In the presence of the outside, we are thankful for many blessings.
I make my prayer for all people, the children, the women and the men.
I pray that no harm will come to them,
and that on the great island,
there be no war,
that there be no ill feelings among us.
From this day on may we walk hand in hand.
So be it.
------ Frank Fools Crow (1890-1989), Lakota leader and medicine man
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