HeartBeat Summer 2009 - Sufi Ruhaniat International

Morning Prayerby Mary Flowers, January, 2009awaken this morning to find in my bed, on my cushion,I floating in the air around me, the multi-coloredthreads of yesterday’s longing.Carefully, I gather and weave them togetherin a prayer shawl of today’s intention.Wrapping it around me, I dress for the feast of union.I will bow again, sit again, pray again, walk again.Today, like yesterday and tomorrow,I place my deepest desirefor union with you, Beloved, andfor the awakening of self and all beingsin the palm of my heart.Thus, I begin to gather the ingredients for our feast.Our feast, you say? Oh, yes, you are invited, too. Please come.Mary and Tara and Jemanja, along with a host of deities and dakinis,have already arrived and taken their places round the great table.Come, and bring your friends, too.We’ll offer our sacred appetite and feast upon the Beautiful Names,Savoring their flavor in our mouths,Turning their sound as they begin to turn us,Swallowing their exquisite resonance and listening as the heartplays them,Dissolving and disappearing into the Great Light,Until only threads remainTo be gathered together on the morrowAnd woven once more into a prayer shawlOf Love’s longing to love her Self. Sufi Ruhaniat International 31