[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Spiritual Care Week this week.

[Phyllis Hockley]

Went to pull out my book of Rumi poetry and pulled out Gibran instead.
He still speaks today, and gives voice to Spiritual Care week.

And an old priest said, Speak to us of Religion.
And he said:
Have I spoken this day of aught else?
Is not religion all deeds and all reflections,
And that which is neither deed nor reflection, but a wonder and a surprise 
ever springing in the soul, even while the hands hew the stone or tend the 
loom?
Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his 
occupations?
Who can spread his hours before him, saying, "This for God and this for 
myself; This for my soul, and this other for my body?"
All your hours are wings that beat through space from self to self.
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
And he who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.
The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
And he to whom worshipping is a window, to open but also to shut, has not 
yet visited the house of his soul whose windows are from dawn to dawn.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.

Sorry I couldn't find Rumi.
Phyllis
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