The "Here I Am" Answer

The kindness in your look

is married to the substance

of your eyes.

Joy lives in the kidneys.

Grief in the liver.

Intelligence, that bright candle,

is burning in the matter

of your brain.

These connections have a purpose,

but we don't know what it is.

The universal soul touches

an individual soul and gives it

a pearl to hide in the chest.

A new Christ lives in you

from that touch, but no one

can say why or how.

Every word I say

is trying to coax a response

from that.

"Lord," I call out,

and inside my "Lord" comes,

"Here I am, "

a "Here I am"

that can't be heard,

but it can be tasted and felt

in every cell of my body.

~Rumi

II, 1180-1191

JBelle

JoJo Nihili

The 'Kan EWA