23 February 2009

"You have fear"

This night I had a remarkable dream where I was in a healer's consultation room expecting him or her to arrive. She came to me in the person of an angelic, prominent woman I happen to have met (still very much alive, by the way!) and intuitively massaged some point on my body by my right arm saying, "You have fear." I was expecting to feel pain on the point she was massaging but felt nothing. It all took just a very short moment, and I was left on my own.

So I wake up and forget about the dream until I hear a beautiful strain of music on the radio, my heart is touched and it recalls the dream - of course very significant to me personally (in ways I won't go into!).

It allowed me a deeper understanding of Bahá'u'lláh's passage from "The Four Valleys", of which it reminded me:
"Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear."

If I can say anything in thanks for this blessing, it is this prayer:

My God, my Adored One, my King, my Desire!
What tongue can voice my thanks to Thee? I was heedless, Thou didst awaken me. I had turned back from Thee, Thou didst graciously aid me to turn towards Thee. I was as one dead, Thou didst quicken me with the water of life. I was withered, Thou didst revive me with the heavenly stream of Thine utterance which hath flowed forth from the Pen of the All-Merciful.

O Divine Providence! All existence is begotten by Thy bounty; deprive it not of the waters of Thy generosity, neither do Thou withhold it from the ocean of Thy mercy. I beseech Thee to aid and assist me at all times and under all conditions, and seek from the heaven of Thy grace Thine ancient favor. Thou art, in truth, the Lord of bounty, and the Sovereign of the kingdom of eternity.

—Bahá'u'lláh

1 comment:

Unknown said...

i liked it! :)