[Tariqas] Everywhere you turn

[Muhajabiti at aol.com]

Dear Friends,
Salaam Alaikum

For the past several years, I have been working a swing shift, going to bed 
after Fajr and rising with Zuhr. Winter arrived last week with temperatures 
dropping from the high sixties to the mid-twenties. About to retreat for a few 
hours sleep, my dreams were postponed by the chirp of chickadees, the tssp tssp 
of cardinals, the Ya Haqq of cawing crows.

I slipped from between the sheets and stepped onto the deck to spread 
sunflower seed for the birds just beginning their day.  Two squirrels watched from a 
nearby tree waiting for their breakfast as I spread seed beneath a bench.

Ivy and unraked leaves lay covered as the snow gathered in the branches of 
nearby trees.  Barefooted and hatless, I stood in the falling snow and turned my 
face toward the sky.  Then I turned and turned, whirling like the falling 
flakes of snow.  

And everywhere I turned, there was God.  My heart still pounds with the joy 
of His bountiless love.

Allahu Akbar!

Tahira
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