Arise Dr Gregory T. Lawton
Vernal spring of emerald green has bloomed again, golden glints of sun brush the clouds with ruby hues against cerulean ripples of sky Pick up the trumpet, two blasts will suffice this day. The fabled thief came in the night, arise. Come off our coach, arise. Step out your house, arise. Leave your piles of gold by the door, arise. The stars have fallen, the moon gives no light, the heavens are cleft in twain, and outside your door is a new Heaven and a new earth, arise. You admire my words until you disagree with them. Why do you think the prophets speak in parables and metaphors they love you too much to disagree with you, they would rather climb upon the cross than argue with you. Not every dog will bark, not every cow gives milk, and not every tree bears fruit. Thus the Trainer, the Farmer, and the Gardener must test them - as the Miner clarifies gold from dross. The lowliest ant busied in the dirt knows this truth, how is it then that you do not? At the dawn of this day the butterfly crawled from its cocoon but your heart remains asleep. Arise!
About the authorDr. Gregory T. Lawton is an author of many books, most of them in the area of health science, but also in the genre of Asian martial arts, philosophy, poetry, and prose. Dr. Lawton is a passionate award winning artist and photographer who finds his artistic and creative inspiration in nature, and who frequently attributes the source of his images and writing to the 19th century Persian Prophet, Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, and the 13th century Persian poet and Sufi Mystic Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī. Dr. Lawton has been a member of the Baha’i Faith since 1970 and embraces the Faith’s principles related to the promotion of world unity and peace.
Kindly reprinted with permission from: Translated from a Foreign Tongue, Copyright 2013, Revised 2017 Dr. Gregory T. Lawton Muyblue Productions 2040 Raybrook Street, SE Suite 104 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49546 616-285-9999
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