The Heart of God

A dear friend came for lunch on Tuesday last week and not only brought lunch with her, but gave me a small book that I love and have been carrying around. The title is "The Heart of God" and it is the prayers of Rabindranath Tagore selected and edited by Herbert F. Vetter. It is published by Tuttle and is, of course, copyrighted but I am going to share the first poem with you. It is called "Accept Me".

Accept me, dear God, accept me for this while.

Let those orphaned days that passed without You be forgotten.

Only spread this little moment wide across your lap, holding it under Your light.

I have wandered in pursuit of voices that drew me, yet led me nowhere.

Now let me sit in peace and listen to Your words in the soul of my silence.

Do not turn away Your face from my heart's dark secrets, but burn them till they are alight with Your fire.

I love the line "Now let me sit in peace and listen to Your words in the soul of my silence."