Readings from an eCourse on Sufi Spirituality

I'm taking an ecourse on Sufi Spirituality through the poems of Rumi.

I loved this poem from Rumi on Monday. The theme this week is transformation. I continue to be both confirmed in my expectations and yet amazed at the similarities of spiritual paths. I expect it to be so. I am continually amazed at seeing it unfold.

The potter works at the pot to fashion it:
how could the pot become wide or long by itself?
The wood is kept constantly in the carpenter's hand:
how else could it be hewn and shaped properly?
The water skin is with the water carrier, skillful one,
for how else could it be filled or emptied?
Every moment you are being filled and emptied:
know then, that you are in the hand of His working.
On the day when the blindfold falls from your eye,
how madly will the work be enamored of the Maker!

A thread, golden thread, running throughout the themes is that we are blindfolded and it's all about removing the blindfold. I like Rumi better than our Scriptural references. Our Scriptures ask how the pot can complain to the potter, "Why did you make me this way?" Rumi promises that, when the blindfold is removed, we will be enamored of the potter.