God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.
RumiDie happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.
RumiI turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.
Rumi