Breath

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through, listen to this music.
I am the concert from the mouth of every creature, singing with the myriad chorus.
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through, listen to this music.  
Shams-ud-din Muhammad Hafiz (1320-1389)   

  

 

 

[Patriarch Bartholomew] asks us to replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing, an asceticism which 'entails learning to give, and not simply to give up. It is a way of loving, of moving gradually from what I want to what God's world needs. It is liberation from fear, greed, and compulsion.' As Christians, we are also called to 'accept the world as a sacrament of communion, as a way of sharing with God and our neighbors on a global scale. It is our humble conviction that the divine and the human meet in the slightest detail in the seamless garment of God's creation, in the last speck of dust of our planet (Pope Francis, Encyclical, Location 76, Kindle).'    

  

A beautiful song.   May we sing it together.