Another Place

"God puts in your heart the fear of losing a certain position, in order that no other position may be an object of hope to you.
O thou, who has fixed your hopes firmly on one quarter saying, "The fruit will come to me from that lofty tree."
Your hope will not be fulfilled from there: no, the bounty will come from another place.
Why, then, did God implant in you that hope, since God would not give you the desired thing from that quarter?
It is for a wise purpose and contrivance; and also in order that your heart may be in a state of bewilderment
It is that your heart may be bewildered, O learner, wondering from where the object of your desire will come to you.
It is that you may know your weakness and your ignorance and that consequently, your faith in the unseen may be increased."

Rumi (Vol.6, 4188-4195)

Commentary: Who, but Rumi, can reassure us that our frustration, our confusion, and our heartbreaking inability to satisfy our desires, are all a kind of grace?