The Breeze At Dawn

THE BREEZE AT DAWN

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.

Don’t go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want.

Don’t go back to sleep.

People are going back & forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch.

The door is round & open.

Don’t go back to sleep.

…by Rumi

“The Essential Rumi”

New Expanded Edition

Translation by Coleman Barks

Harper Collins, 2004, p. 36

“The Breeze at Dawn” is a Rumi poem. Rumi (Sept. 30, 1207-Dec. 17, 1273), as he is popularly called, was a 13th century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian & Sufi mystic. There is a good deal of information about him on Wikipedia. His followers founded the Mevlevi Sufi Order after his death in 1273. Every major religion has a mystical form it seems. In Islam it’s Sufism, in Judaism it’s Kabbalah and in Christianity it’s Gnosticism. These are just the ones I know. I’m sure there are many others.

I consider this poem to be one of my theme songs, so to speak. It was first brought to my attention by one of my mentors (I highly recommend having at least one mentor but that will be a post for another day) and it seems that every time it is brought to my attention again, it fits me and my life perfectly. When I decided to begin this blog, yet again came the reminder. So, of course, I had to plaster it on the front page. I can’t possibly explain in one small post all of the reasons why it fits and belongs on the front page but I will attempt a few just to introduce myself and this blog.

First off is the obvious in that it has my name in it! Despite my moniker and that I was born at dawn (hence the name), I am not a morning person and I have a lot of trouble waking up in the morning. Often falling back asleep, when I intend to wake up. “Don’t go back to sleep“ is a reminder to remain conscious and to remember who I really am – a spiritual being having a physical experience – something that many of us have forgotten and that causes us to live our lives half asleep. Life can seem so much easier and simpler to sleepwalk through it. Spirit has worked hard to wake me up in this lifetime and keep me awake!

Asking for what I want is something I am still learning to do. This requires that I be aware enough of myself that I know what I need. After waking up enough to realize what I need, I still have to take it a step further and ask. I don’t mean ask others which could also be another meaning of this line but ask Spirit. This reminds me of the bible verse on my “Wisdom” page Matthew 7:7-8 NIV “So I say to you:  Ask & it will be given to you; seek & you will find; knock & the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds & to the one who knocks the door will be opened.” My absolute, all time favorite bible verse since I was young that never fails to bring tears to my eyes and give me goosebumps when I read it. By the way, I’ve learned that anything that causes goosebumps or brings tears to my eyes is significant to me in some way. Just more ways that Spirit communicates.

“People are going back & forth across the door sill where the two worlds touch.” This for me refers to the waking and the dream state, the physical world and the spiritual world, being born and passing away among other possibilities. These two worlds only seem disconnected from each other but aren’t as “the door is round & open,” implying that you can easily cross “back & forth” from one to the other. My earliest memory of crossing the door sill was when I was 2 years old. I was reaching for a red ball in the corner next to the stove when a pot of hot coffee was accidentally knocked over on top of me. I went into shock from suffering 2nd and 3rd degree burns. I have no memory after the red ball until the hospital where I remember watching from the corner of the curtained off emergency room as the hospital staff worked on me. I was not afraid and just stayed there and watched. The next memory is of  waking up back in my body in the hospital crib with something uncomfortable wrapped around my middle, probably a blanket. This was my first out-of-body-experience (OOBE) that I can remember and possibly my first spiritual experience in general, also.

“The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you” would be me.  I have kept my spiritual life a complete secret from others for most of my life. Speaking up, so to speak, is something I never intended to do and yet here I am telling secrets! I can’t keep quiet any longer. The pressure from Spirit to speak can no longer be denied. For anyone who understands metaphysics, the study of things beyond the physical, my not speaking all this time explains in part my developing thyroid problems. It’s time to speak. I hope Spirit and God are happy, now.  🙂

And with that, this blog has officially begun.

Happy New Year!

Love in the Light of God, Dawn