Surrender

Joseph is back.

And if you don’t feel in yourself

the freshness of Joseph,

be Jacob.

Weep, and then smile.

Do not pretend to know something

you have not experienced.

There is a necessary dying,

and then Jesus is breathing again.

Very little grows on jagged rock.

Be ground. Be crumbled,

so wildflowers will come up

where you are.

You have been stony

for too many years.

Try something different.

Surrender.

- Rumi