August, 2008
Reunion of hearts
What a pleasant surprise! God is all glorious and I experience His presence in most unexpected ways. I got this morning two comments on my blog from a very special friend who years ago touched my heart in immeasurable and lasting ways. Dawn and her brother Grant came to my hometown in the summer of [...]
Olympic gold for a Portuguese Baha’i
Thanks to a hint from BahaiViews, I followed anxiously this morning the performance at the triple jump of Nelson Evora, a Baha’i sportsman from Portugal who grew up in Capo Verde. The Olympics website by NBC shares the following about Nelson Evora: Man of faith Evora is a member of the Bahá’í Faith, which is [...]
Recipe for success
Thine eye is My trust, suffer not the dust of vain desires to becloud its luster. Thine ear is a sign of My bounty, let not the tumult of unseemly motives turn it away from My Word that encompasseth all creation. Thine heart is My treasury, allow not the treacherous hand of self to rob [...]
Prayer Station
We rarely (probably never) know what the harvest of the seeds we sow will be. All we know is we need to keep sowing if we want to harvest. However we might reflect on the purpose and meaning of marriage, Baha’u’llah gives us a very clear guidance: Enter into wedlock, O people, that ye may [...]
International Day at Work
The Purpose of the one true God, exalted be His glory, in revealing Himself unto men is to lay bare those gems that lie hidden within the mine of their true and inmost selves. That the divers communions of the earth, and the manifold systems of religious belief, should never be allowed to foster the [...]
Random cravings
At lunch I was talking with two coworkers — one is a most marvelous Baha’i and the other is Chinese. The Chinese coworker and I were reminiscing on growing up in a communist country. He recollected how happy the old times were and how, with all the development the economic boom has brought, most people [...]
God’s Beautiful Paradoxes
Blessed is the one who discovereth the fragrance of inner meanings from the traces of this Pen through whose movement the breezes of God are wafted over the entire creation, and through whose stillness the very essence of tranquillity appeareth in the realm of being. Glorified be the All-Merciful, the Revealer of so inestimable a [...]
Back to biking
Today I came to work for the first time on a bike since I broke my nose and splintered a wrist in early June following a bike crush. I was more caucious that usual down the steep hills when approaching Rosslyn but crossing the Potomac and seeing Georgetown in the bright sunlight was as beautiful [...]
Beyond the limited self
Ever since I went to Bulgaria I have been contemplating on the question of what is authentic in me. The question was inspired by the observation of how much I fluctuated depending on who I was around. That was particularly obvious when I was around old friends who were not fully familiar with the meaning [...]
Spiritual Education for Children in Northern Virginia
I am back from Bulgaria, in more than one ways. Re-adjusting is never easy. The best way is by putting myself in service to others. Over the past two days I assisted Justin in launching a beautiful new site on spiritual education for children in Northern Virginia. And having practiced in other neighborhoods and in [...]
