mercy turns into FORGIVENESS

Ramadan is a guest to be cherished and always honoured.

For those who have not experienced its fresh , honest approach to LIFE... let me count the ways .

When a human seeks HELP from HIS Lord in humility and honesty as one must be during a fast .. Heaven's gates open wide and down falls the GRACE . Oh , to not experience this favour is truly a LOSS .

One's thoughts change completely ..almost 180 degrees . Man's perception adjusts itself to see the positive all around him . His nature and soul find rest in such changing thoughts. Food, lustful ways and negativity do not seem significant when fasting . The prayers , done as each can manage cool the brain and settle the nervous system . Your maker knows what each one can do and will not expect more.

As the FORGIVENESS then follows MERCY , we resolve to let go of past reproaches , failures and misunderstandings. Let us offer this to others as we seek it from above for ourselves.

Please GOD, let us continue to grow and understand one another's desires and minds... so as to become one with YOU!

Shaban ends and Ramadan arrives

How to really know HIS design for you? We seek, listen , pray and persevere the best we can . Sometimes it appears that we may not know what is next . BUT even then , that is OK! Rajab, Shaban , and now Ramadan months are our guests . Did we appreciate them fully ? Please forgive us for our own priorities ... may the service we have given still please YOU! In my search for personal contentment , I find it only when I serve in HIS ways ...not in my ways . For I am nothing but a human with faults and inadequacies . As we enter Ramadan , let us purify , come closer to our Source than before and know HIS presence is still with us. We have not but HIM and are nothing without HIM. I humbly beseech YOUR guidance . AMIN!