Writing in Snow

Thankful Thursday: April 15, 2021

Istijlal (Majesty) 8 Jalal (Glory) 178 B.E. - Thursday, April 15, 2021

My Serenity journal has been an educations and has made me more appreciative of the Universal House of Justice (the world governing body of the Baha'i Faith. The Serenity Journal has sever different Bible verse from numerous translations of the Christian scriptures. At first, these translations appear extremely different from each other; although, if you compare the translation with the verse from the King James Translation of the Bible you can see that how the verse is a loose translation of the Holy Bible. I still wonder how authentic the translations are, but I can see there are similarities to the original King James Version.

The Universal House of Justice oversees and authenticates the translations of the Baha'i scriptures from the original Persian and Arabic that they were revealed in. Translations that have not been authenticated by the Universal House of Justice are referred to as provisional translation. For me, this is helpful when it comes to reading the scriptures. I can still read and mediation on the provisional translations knowing that their may be some slight changes when they are authenticated.

On the third Thankful Thursday in April 2021,
         I am grateful ...
                    ...for Merit badges received between 4/8/21-4/14/21.

                    ...that I have a ZTE Tablet because I can access YouTube videos while I am working on the computer.
                    ...for fresh brewed black coffee on this beautiful spring morning.
                    ...that my Bank of America checking account is not overdrawn today.
                    ...for the chicken wings and baked potatoes I had for lunch today.
                    ...that the official copy of my birth certificate came today.