RUMI-NATIONS on DESIRE

This is a celebration of falling in love and partaking of the Wine of the Beloved. It is both a meditation on the Song of Solomon, the Song of Songs and a celebration, a rumination on the love of the ancient Persian poet and Sufi mystic Rumi for the Divine in ways that bridge divides between faiths as the realization of the "desire of nations".

In early youth, the author was called by the name, "as Samuel was", for a purpose that was incomprehensible to him at the time. Years later, while living in Jerusalem with his wife, the Lord asked him, "Do you remember when you first fell in love?". His response was, "Yes Lord, I do". The Lord replied, " I want you to fall in love with me with that same abandon". This book represents part of the profound experience that comes with joyful submission to that request. For, when you know God, it is easy to love the all too often "Unknown God".