Devotionals
Prayer Station: Patience
The God-conscious being is always unattached, as the lotus in the water remains detached. The God-conscious being is always unstained, like the sun, which gives its comfort and warmth to all. The God-conscious being looks upon all alike, like the wind, which blows equally upon the king and the poor beggar. The God-conscious being has [...]
Prayer Station Invitation “Patience”
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. (Christianity, King James Bible, Hebrews, 10:35-36) O ye who believe! seek help with patience and with prayer, for God is with the patient. [...]
Celebrating the Prince of Peace
As the years of my Baha’i life pass, my appreciation of celebrating Holy Days becomes deeper and more enjoyable. In the past couple of years, first thing I do on the first working day of the new year is to block all Baha’i Holy Days on my calendar and send the list to my boss. [...]
Prayer Station Invitation: The Glory Of God
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. (Judaism / Christianity, Holy Bible, Psalms, 19:1) Behold how the manifold grace of God, which is being showered from the clouds of Divine glory, hath, in this day, encompassed the world. For whereas in days past every lover besought and searched after [...]
Answer for a tiny seed
As I was getting ready to go to Peter and Riva’s prayer meeting, the “Tiny Seed” melody came to mind: I am, O my God, but a tiny seed which Thou hast sown in the soil of Thy love… So timely, for the theme of the prayer meeting tonight was to be Transformation. We must [...]
The lamps of God
God always provides the timeliest answers. As if to address my hesitation from a day ago about the pros and cons of having a blog, a new friend who had hoped to come to the Prayer Station tonight emailed me saying: “I noticed your email address name — do you have a blog with this [...]
Prayer Station Invitation: The Bab
I am, I am, I am the Promised One! I am the One Whose name you have for a thousand years invoked, at Whose mention you have risen, Whose advent you have longed to witness, and the hour of Whose Revelation you have prayed God to hasten. Verily, I say, it is incumbent upon the [...]
Prayer Station Invitation: House Concert with Katharine Key on Oct 12
Dear friends, At the most recent Interfaith Prayer Station, several representatives of the Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and Baha’i communities reflected on how worshiping God binds us together regardless of our religious backgrounds. We also listened to inspired poetry highlighting the powerful experience of pilgrimage to the holy sites of Islam and compared that to other [...]
Prayer Station Invitation “Divine Will”
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and [...]
Prayer Station Invitation: Divine Trumpet Blast
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation. (Jewish Torah (Law), Vayikra (Leviticus), 23:23-24) Arise, and proclaim unto the entire [...]
