The Evangelical Universalist Forum

A shout of joy

Here’s a great line from the poet Rumi, a Sufi (persian mystic) from the 13th century.
From the poem “On the day I die”:

Your mouth closes here and immediately

opens with a ​Shout of joy, there​!​

I like that ‘here’ ‘immediately’ ‘there’. Resonates with Christianity.

Here’s the whole poem (short)
On the day I die, when I’m being carried
toward the grave, don’t weep. Don’t say,

He’s gone! He’s gone. Death has nothing
to do with going away. The sun sets and

the moon sets, but they’re not gone.
Death is a coming together. The tomb

looks like a prison, but it’s really
release into union. The human seed goes

down in the ground like a bucket into
the well where Joseph is. It grows and

comes up full of some unimagined beauty.
Your mouth closes here and immediately

opens with a shout of joy there.

There’s always room for Rumi :exclamation: :smiley:

Loved it and I agree. Our union is complete when we see Christ face to face. There is a union now but it’s not a complete union. But we can have a lot of it. Union is complete in the end when heaven and hell intertwine and come together uniting sinners and saints in the blazing light of fire as all come into the union after being salted with fire.