{"id":986,"date":"2014-12-08T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T05:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/mission-and-identity\/?p=986"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:49:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T20:49:55","slug":"dec-8-about-the-word-yes-hafiz-sufi-and-st-paul-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/poetry\/2014\/12\/08\/dec-8-about-the-word-yes-hafiz-sufi-and-st-paul-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 8 — About the word “yes” Hafiz (Sufi) and St. Paul (Christian)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday December 8 – \u00a0“It was always yes”<\/strong><\/p>\n

For years and years this passage from Paul\u2019s Second Letter to the Corinthians has stirred my soul. \u00a0When I lose track of it for a time and find myself grinding away and looking at my life with sardonic know-it-all aloofness, and then think to treat these words like a poem again, the words turn me toward playful attentiveness and a grateful heart. \u00a0 Today, what led me to 2nd Corinthians was a weekly feed called \u201cA Year of Being Here.\u201d \u00a0Readers of this list have benefitted from quite\u00a0few poems that I met there. \u00a0 In this week\u2019s set of seven I found the 14th century Persian poet, Hafiz \u00a0(http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hafez<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Many people find that the stately procession of sunrises toward their northernmost Solstice point at the shortest day of the year wears on them, \u00a0too many dim and dark minutes per day. \u00a0Sometimes pockets of bright light from tight beam lamps help treat the dark as holy; but sometimes gloom settles in and saps the power of imagination. \u00a0Poems like Paul\u2019s and Hafiz\u2019s help a lot.<\/p>\n

Days of darkness for sure; \u00a0best watch your language and read the poems out loud.<\/p>\n

Have a blest Monday.<\/p>\n

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john sj<\/p>\n

p.s.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I used Paul\u2019s poem on the card we made for my father\u2019s funeral and then, 25 years later, for my mother\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post # 1 \u00a0Hafiz \u00a0\u201cEvery Movement”<\/strong><\/p>\n

I rarely let the word \u201cNo\u201d escape
\nFrom my mouth
\nBecause it is plain to my soul
\nThat God has shouted \u201cYes! Yes! Yes!\u201d
\nTo every luminous movement in existence.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Post # 2 \u00a0Paul\u00a0\u201cAlways Yes\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Son of God,
\nThe Christ Jesus that we proclaimed among you . . .
\nwas never \u201cyes\u201d and \u201cno.\u201d
\nWith him it was always \u201cyes.\u201d
\nAnd however many the promises God has made,
\nThe \u201cYes\u201d to them all is in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery Moment\u201d \u00a0\u2014\u00a0Text as published in\u00a0I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz<\/a>\u00a0(Sufism Reoriented, 1996). Purported to be translated from the original Persian (Farsi) by Daniel Ladinsky. \u00a0Please note that Ladinsky’s “translations” are controversial, considered by many to be less Hafiz than Ladinsky himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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