The Best Book...

This is most definitely my favorite book. It's called Love Poems from God. Phil got it for me for my 20th birthday. Basically it has all these poems in it by people like Rumi, St. Francis of Assisi, Hafiz, St. Thomas, etc. And Daniel Ladinsky translated it all and put it together in this book. He has lots of other books out too: The Gift, I Heard God Laughing, The Subject Tonight is Love... and of course they are all fabulous as well...

Here's one of my favorites:

A Lover Who Wants His Lovers Near

He is

sweet that way,

coaxing the world to dance.

Look how the wind holds the trees in its hands

helping them to

sway.

Look how the sky takes the fields and the oceans

and our bodies in its arms, and moves

all being toward

His lips.

God must get hungry for us; why is He not also

a loves who wants His lovers

near?

Beauty

is my teacher

helping me to know He

cares for

me.

Welp, you should own that book...

Happy Friday!

Love,

Lace