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Prayer for the Day: 17/11/2022

17/11/2022

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 17/11/2022

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muneera Pilgrim

A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muneera Pilgrim, poet, writer and broadcaster.

Good Morning

On the 1st of this month authors globally celebrated world authors day. If you scratch the surface of social media, you can see writers of all kinds celebrating the grand achievement of writing a book. A group of poet friends and I wanted to get in on the action, so for the rest of the month, we will be sharing with each other, lines from our poetry and using them as writing prompts, in order to keep that writing spark going! Soon it will be my turn to share a few lines, and I think my first line will be this: 
cascading into darkness is nothing but embryonic fluids and life, this is birth. 

This line was inspired by the words of 13th-century poet and Jurist Julaudine Rumi who said the wound is the point where the light enters you. Many Sufi poets like Rumi talk about pain with the potentiality of it being a transformative force, a force that can lead from darkness to light. 

As wounds can be dangerous it is no wonder why they are seen as negative and in some cases even painful, but psychologists, like Dr Sanah Ahsan, have talked about the need to sometimes sit with the pain that we feel rather than run away from it.

Dear Lord, you have said surely after hardship there is ease, so please allow all painful things that we go through to eventually be a source of light and growth. Save us from pain, but if we must go through it, please let it develop into a site of beauty and love.

Ameen

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