It happens every few weeks, or months. A reminder of what I left behind. It comes with a sudden warm, coastal wind, or a flower that I saw every day, or a friend’s smiling face. It sometimes sneaks up, like feet sinking in the sand, and sometimes it is like tripping on uneven rock paths.
I am home, over 2 years and I am taken back to a place that is burned into my soul and heart.
Wishing I could dissolve in tears with my face pressed to the carpet, the silence and the smell of roses like a warm embrace…
“O thou cherished Fruit of the heart! Give ear to the melodies of this mystic Bird warbling in the loftiest heights of heaven. The Lord hath, in truth, inspired Me to proclaim: Verily, verily, I am God, He besides Whom there is none other God. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise.
O My servants! Seek ye earnestly this highest reward, as I have indeed created for the Remembrance of God gardens which remain inscrutable to anyone save Myself, and naught therein hath been made lawful unto anyone except those whose lives have been sacrificed in His Path. Hence beseech ye God, the Most Exalted, that He may grant you this meritorious reward, and He is in truth the Most High, the Most Great.”
– the Báb
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I can finally say I know that carpet. And I remember that photo! Beautifully written. I am reminded of this passage:
“You perceive how the soul is the intermediary between the body and the spirit. In like manner is this tree 1 the intermediary between the seed and the fruit. When the fruit of the tree appears and becomes ripe, then we know that the tree is perfect; if the tree bore no fruit it would be merely a useless growth, serving no purpose!
When a soul has in it the life of the spirit, then does it bring forth good fruit and become a Divine tree. I wish you to try to understand this example. I hope that the unspeakable goodness of God will so strengthen you that the celestial quality of your soul, which relates it to the spirit, will for ever dominate the material side, so entirely ruling the senses that your soul will approach the perfections of the Heavenly Kingdom. May your faces, being steadfastly set towards the Divine Light, become so luminous that all your thoughts, words and actions will shine with the Spiritual Radiance dominating your souls, so that in the gatherings of the world you will show perfection in your life.”
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-31.html.utf8
I also remember the story we heard on Pilgrimage of the oranges at the Mansion being described as “balls of fire.”
http://www.awayfarer.org/tag/akka/