Create Windows

If the house of the world is dark, love will find a way to create windows. – The Analects of Rumi.

My dear friend Tom, the Sufi master, turned me on to the poetry and wisdom of Rumi years ago. I came across the above recently. If we ever needed evidence of the truth of Rumi’s words above it was the last year of Covid. Amongst all the horror, tragedy, and inconvenience the virus heaped upon us, we saw through windows of love every day — young helping the elderly, health care workers going above and beyond, and big businesses learning the value of their people.

As we emerge from the darkness our world still needs windows. The question we must each ask is how do I create a window, then act on the answer.

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Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.