Teach Me!

Aum Sairam

Teach me your way, Oh Lord, that I may walk in your truth; give me an
undivided heart to revere your name.

Truth is hard to embrace when your heart is divided. When the twists
and turns of life have caused your heart to split in two, truth becomes
difficult to recognize. We search for truth, we ask ourselves what it
is, and we may even find ourselves hiding, denying, or despising it. We
either try to discover the truth in all the untamed strands that are
wiggling around in our heart, or we try to meld all the strands into
one so that the truth is easier to discern. There is, in fact, truth in
all the strands, but it is living the truth single-mindedly that
becomes fuzzy the more our heart is pulled in various directions.

Learning the ways of heaven makes it possible for us heals the breaches
in our heart and claims a higher truth. We begin to see that healing
the divisions in our heart is important, but imperfect. We find we have
a silent desire to have our human truth gathered up into the divine
truth that is the very essence of eternity. In the end, we know that it
is the pure truth of heaven alone that will mend our tattered heart and
give it the balance and meaning for which it longs. So, perhaps, it is
worth the effort to learn the ways of heaven. Oh yes, it is surely
worth it.

Oh God, take the filaments of my heart and knit them together until
truth becomes clear in and through me.

Allah Malik