{"id":58,"date":"2010-10-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/blissblog\/2010\/10\/major-league-wonderful.html"},"modified":"2015-07-14T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T21:23:30","slug":"major-league-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/blissblog\/2010\/10\/major-league-wonderful.html","title":{"rendered":"Major League Wonderful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag, has kissed you and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re it.\/ I mean you&#8217;re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. For something wonderful, something major-league wonderful, is someday going to happen.&#8221;- Hafiz<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Poetry has the power to inspire, delight, inform and take us to places that we had never before considered going. Hafiz is one such poet whose words from\u00a0ancient times speak to me in ways that tickle my soul.\u00a0 Did he know at the time that the syllables he uttered, seven centuries ago, would create ripples on the pond of creation and touch so many hearts?\u00a0 Do we have a clue that the creative gifts of our own souls can have that impact on those who will witness them?<\/p>\n<p>How do you allow God to play tag with you?<\/p>\n<p>Are you willing to be smooched by the Divine?<\/p>\n<p>What &#8216;major-league&#8217; wonderful thing are you open to receiving in your life?<\/p>\n<p>I KNOW that &#8216;major league wonderful things&#8217; are happening every day.\u00a0 Claim them. Embrace them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hafiz was a 14th century Persian, Sufi\u00a0mystical poet\u00a0who wrote what I like to think of as ecstatic love poems: to, for and with God.\u00a0They are multi-layered, since they are divinely and humanly devotional. A\u00a0modern writer Daniel Landinsky has\u00a0translated these\u00a0\u00a0wondrous words\u00a0 and his books:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Gift-Hafiz\/dp\/0140195815\"><i>The Gift &#8211; Poems by Hafiz<\/i><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Subject-Tonight-Is-Love\/dp\/0140196234\"><i>The Subject Tonight is Love: 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz<\/i><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Love-Poems-God-Twelve-Compass\/dp\/0142196126\"><i>Love Poems From God &#8211; Twelve Sacred Voices From The East And West<\/i><\/a>\u00a0 can be found in most book stores.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--START: email_friend--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;God disguised as myriad things, and playing a game of tag, has kissed you and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re it.\/ I mean you&#8217;re really it. Now it does not matter what you believe or feel. 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