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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #2170111
This blog contains responses to blog prompts, & thoughts on spiritual or religious themes
#986129 added June 21, 2020 at 3:32pm
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Father's Day 2020
Jamál (Beauty), 18 Núr (Light) 177 B.E. Sunday, June 21, 2020
Father's Day

Day 21 entry for "The Bard's Hall Contest.

"O Lord! In this Most Great Dispensation Thou dost accept the intercession of children in behalf of their parents. This is one of the special infinite bestowals of this Dispensation. Therefore, O Thou kind Lord, accept the request of this Thy servant at the threshold of Thy singleness and submerge his father in the ocean of Thy grace, because this son hath arisen to render Thee service and is exerting effort at all times in the pathway of Thy love. Verily, Thou art the Giver, the Forgiver and the Kind!"
‘Abdu’l-Bahá1

Father's Day 2020,
and--
what few--
memories I have of my Father
flow through my mind.

Daddy
was a tall man,
carried me on his shoulder,
sometimes wore a hat,
and worked a blue collar job.

Daddy
liked apple jelly
on his hot cakes,
and drink his coffee
with cream.

Father's Day 2020
is a day of letting the tears go,
and holding onto the memories.

Footnotes
1  http://www.bahaiprayers.org/families3.htm


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