Tuesday, April 19, 2016

God never fails. He always delivers. Pay attention to your blessing. Enjoy your day and be safe. A Small Green Island by Rumi (A year with Rumi Daily Readings by Coleman Barks)

There is a small green island where one white cow lives, alone, a meadow of an island. The cow grazes until nightfall, full and fat, but during the night she panics and grows thin as a single hair. “What shall I eat tomorrow? There’s nothing left!” By dawn the grass has grown up again, waist-high. The cow starts eating and by dark the meadow is clipped short. She is full of strength and energy, but she panics in the darkness as before and grows abnormally thin overnight. The cow does this over and over, and this is all she does. She never thinks, This meadow has never failed to grow back. Why should I be afraid every night that it won’t. The cow is the bodily soul. The island field is this world where that grows lean with fear and fat with blessing, lean and fat. White cow, don’t make your self miserable with what’s to come or not to come.

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