serenity and celebration

A quote from Abdu'l-Baha to help us weather the tests I was sure would greet us:

 

Be calm, be strong, be grateful, and become a lamp full of light, that the darkness of sorrows be annihilated, and that the sun of everlasting joy arise from the dawning-place of heart and soul, shining brightly.

 

Upon thee be the Glory of the Most-Glorious.

 

(Abdu'l-Baha, Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha v2, p. 405)

 

 

.....and a quote to remind us how wonderful it was to spend this Holy Festival TOGETHER, and to share it with those we would meet:

 

Verily, all created things were

immersed in the sea of purification when, on that first

day of Ridvan, We shed upon the whole of creation the

splendours of Our most excellent Names and Our most

exalted Attributes. This, verily, is a token of My loving

providence, which hath encompassed all the worlds.

Consort ye then with the followers of all religions, and

proclaim ye the Cause of your Lord, the Most

Compassionate; this is the very crown of deeds, if ye be of them who understand.

 

(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 47)

 

 

Done