Friday, February 17, 2012

Why Destiny?

Confusion overwhelms reason
Divergent paths equally right
Each foreshadowing a change of season
A shadowed heart given new sight

A light of love guides you forward
But each step you take is your own
Not always aware what you're moving toward
Praying you will be guided and shown

Some paths fade and disappear
Beginnings lost by fate's elation
Others shine resplendent and clear
The soul's joyous confirmation

But when two paths stand side by side
And you're given time to choose
How do you take the correct stride
With no signposts or clues?

And when this choice made with haste and urgency
Causes other events to ensue
Are you leading your own destiny?
Or is it leading you?

Friday, February 10, 2012

A Union of Two Seas


Two hearts brimming with Thy grace
Their souls aflame with Thine embrace
Guided to each other by Thy hand
Meet today at Thy command

Two families linked by their affection
Reveling in this world’s perfection
United in joy and love’s elation
In awe of the brilliance of God’s creation

Two wings of a dove soaring in the skies
A union which breaks all ego’s ties
Glorious reflections of Thy light
Beacon’s of love in the dark of night

Two bright orbs threaded into one
Radiant as a midnight sun
In servitude they promise their life
As they become husband and wife

Two seas join in eternal devotion
The pearls of their love illumine the ocean
Hearts the world over will become ignited
As with a vow of love these two souls are united

































He is God!

O peerless Lord! In Thine almighty wisdom Thou hast enjoined marriage upon the peoples, that the generations of men may succeed one another in this contingent world, and that ever, so long as the world shall last, they may busy themselves at the Threshold of Thy oneness with servitude and worship, with salutation, adoration and praise. “I have not created spirits and men, but that they should worship me.”¹ Wherefore, wed Thou in the heaven of Thy mercy these two birds of the nest of Thy love, and make them the means of attracting perpetual grace; that from the union of these two seas of love a wave of tenderness may surge and cast the pearls of pure and goodly issue on the shore of life. “He hath let loose the two seas, that they meet each other: Between them is a barrier which they overpass not. Which then of the bounties of your Lord will ye deny? From each He bringeth up greater and lesser pearls.”²

O Thou kind Lord! Make Thou this marriage to bring forth coral and pearls. Thou art verily the All-Powerful, the Most Great, the Ever-Forgiving.

‘Abdu’l-Bahá