I am presently leading a guided retreat with some of our sisters here.
Here's one of the poems we are praying with:
Radical Hospitality
This being
human is a guest house.
Every morning
is a new arrival.
A joy, a
depression, a meanness,
some momentary
awareness comes
as an
unexpected visitor.
Welcome and
entertain them all!
Even if they’re
a crowd of sorrows,
who violently
sweep your house
empty of its
furniture,
still, treat
each guest honorably.
[S]he may be
clearing you out
for some new
delight.
The dark
thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at
the door laughing,
and invite them
in.
Be grateful for
whoever comes,
because each
has been sent
as a guide from
beyond.
-Rumi
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