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 MORE WONDERFUL INTERFAITH VERSES 1 Corinthians 13:1-8; 13 If I speak with human tongues and angelic as well, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong, a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and, with full knowledge, comprehend all mysteries, if I have faith great enough to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give everything I have to feed the poor and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries. Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit to love's forbearance, to its trust, its hope, its power to endure. Love never fails. Prophecies will cease, tongues will be silent, knowledge will pass away…There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love, and the greatest of these is love. GENESIS 2 READING God said, "it is not good for man to live alone. I will make a companion to help him." So God took some soil from the ground and formed all the animals and all the birds and brought them to the man to see what he would name them: and that is how they all got their names. So the man named all the birds and all the animals; but not one of them was a suitable companion. Then God made the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, God took out one of the man's ribs and closed up the flesh. God formed a woman out of the rib and brought her unto him. Then the man said "At last, here is one of my own kind- Bone taken from my bone, and flesh from my flesh, and Woman is her name." But never forget that the Talmud, the oral law of Judaism tells us: "Woman was not created from man's head that he should command her, Nor from his feet that she should be his slave, But rather, from his side, that she should ever be near his heart." From Gift from the Sea
by Anne Morror Lindbergh When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners in the same pattern. The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be in dread or anticipation, but living in present relationship and accepting it as it is now. For relationships, too, must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and now, within their limits - islands surrounded by and interrupted by the sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides. One must accept the security of the winged life, of intermittency. From the Marriage of Deborah and Roger
December 26, 1999
attributed to Rumi
How near You are, Beloved, Yet how far! How far when I see You at the end of the path And I as a journeyer, Yet how near when I know You are the path, My companion, and we are One. How far You are when I gaze upon the clock Awaiting the hour of your arrival, Yet how near when the clock stops And there is no time. If I see myself as but a little self, You are too vast for me, But if I know what I truly am, I know that we are One And the searching ends. |