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