Writing in Snow

Sunday: July 16, 2017

Jamál (Beauty), 5 Kalimát (Words) 174 Badi - Sunday, July 16, 2017 CE

"O my God, my Master, the Goal of my desire! This, Thy servant, seeketh to sleep in the shelter of Thy mercy, and to repose beneath the canopy of Thy grace, imploring Thy care and Thy protection.

I beg of Thee, O my Lord, by Thine eye that sleepeth not, to guard mine eyes from beholding aught beside Thee. Strengthen, then, their vision that they may discern Thy signs, and behold the Horizon of Thy Revelation. Thou art He before the revelations of Whose omnipotence the quintessence of power hath trembled.

No God is there but Thee, the Almighty, the All-Subduing, the Unconditioned."

Bahá’u’lláh1

This is my favorite evening prayer, and it was the first Baha'i Prayer I memorized. I read or recite it every night either before or after I turn out the light to go to sleep. If I go to bed too early I wake up about midnight, if that happens then I read the Midnight prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha. I read or recite the prayer by Baha'u'llah, The Bab, and 'Abdu'l-Baha because I can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit when I read them.

Poems dedicated to the Blessed Beauty
that I have finish in "Bicentenary Poems and Prose" .

"There is Only One Way Out" 
"Light Bulb Moments" 
"Healing the Planet" 
"Feast of Words" 
"Awakening" 
"The Way I Wrote These 200 Poems" 
"That We Might Be Free" 
"Prayer for Steadfastness" 
"Where I Got the Inspiration For These 200 Poems" 
"Feast of Mercy" 
"Lost In Translation" 
"God's Way, Not My Way" 
"The Word of God" 
"Feast of Light" 
"The Dreamer's Scent Awakens the Soul of the Seeker" 
"Feast of Grandeur" 
"Go Forward, Press Onward" 
"Feast of Beauty" 
"Haifa, The Magnificent City" 
"Feast of Glory" 
"Wayfarer's Journey" 
"Feast of Splendour" 
"Hermeneutics" 
"Feast of Perfection" 
"Listen to the Nightingale" 
"Feast of Names" 
"The King of Glory" 
"Reading the Long Healing Prayer" 
"Chanting The Greatest Name" 
"A Poem Fell Into My Hand" 
"Feast of Might" 
"God's Children" 

I need to focus on finishing poems 28, 29, 30, 23, 33, 34, and 36 this week. I can still work on the other, and list any ideas I come up with. However I need to finish those seven poem sometime between today and Friday.

Goals accomplished today.

Poem 27 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
"Promises and Premonitions, Chap. 4" 
"Diamonds or Dust?"  "Aprils snow" 
Poem 28 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 29 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty

I went to the Baha'i Center this afternoon for the July Devotional Services. While I was there I purchased two book The Sufferings of Baha'u'llah and Call of the Nightingale. Reading these books should give me a lot of ideas for the rest of the 200 poems I'm dedicating to the Blessed Beauty. The subject of today's service was "All true healing comes from God", which is a quote from 'Abdu'l-Baha. The subject of the August 20 meeting is "Will of God".

Goals for the Week of July 16-22, 2017

Finish making out paperwork and mail
Add chapters to
          "Invalid Item" 
          "Invalid Item" 
          "Invalid Item" 
Review chapter, poems, or stories in
          "Hawks With Sins" 
          "Diamonds or Dust?"  "Thrown out of the office" 
          "Invalid Item"  Chapter 3
          "Pants on Fire"  "Setting Priorities" 
          "The Most Wonderful Day of . . . Chap. 5" 
          "Deconstructing a Life, Chap. 6" 
Finish story We Will Rise Up!
Finish poems in "Bicentenary Poems and Prose" 
          Poem 30 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 32 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 33 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 34 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 36 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 38 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 39 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 40 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 41 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 42 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 43 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 44 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 45 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 46 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 47 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 48 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 49 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 50 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 51 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 52 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 53 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
          Poem 54 of 200 Dedicated to The Blessed Beauty
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Footnotes
1  Bahái Words for July 16, 2017.