Assalamu alaikum!
I am back after the (relatively) lengthy break alhamdulillah. Some of you may be aware that I was blessed with the opportunity to visit Imam Ridha (as) in Mashhad (Iran). There are so many things I felt I would want to write about when I got back from there, but now that I am actually sitting at the screen and typing, I have absolutely no words to write about my experiences. There are things that one can only experience and feel, and so putting them down on paper/reducing them to material format would not do justice to their reality.
That being said, I will try and incorporate my experiences and things I learnt in my upcoming posts. Perhaps my poetry blog may have a bit more to share, but for now, I don't know. I am grateful for your prayers, and ask you to keep remembering me in them.
On a slightly different tangent, I have been thinking a lot about priorities and life decisions. There are so many moments in our lives when we make life changing decisions, and so many priorities we make which have a major impact on the course our lives take, but how much thought do we actually put into such moments and priorities? Or if we do actually put thought into them, and know what priorities we do want to have, are we still able to keep the priorities?
There is so much I don't know at this point,
The shore seems distant, and sky and shore joint.
The waves toss me upon their tempest,
Exposing me to my shocking frailty,
And the oceans of tears empty and fill,
Both in the same gasping breath.
I don't know where this raft will land,
I am not sure what direction I am facing any more.
Am I at the sunrise,
Or did sunset arrive while I was distracted?
In the waves of unknowns, only one certainty lingers:
Your Mercy is beyond measure,
this ark will take me to the shore,
and when I get there,
I will plead for Your mercy some more.
Do remember me in your prayers :-)
