Writing in Snow

Tests & Difficulties, Gratitude List, and Poem

Jalál (Glory), 17 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Saturday, October 13, 2018

[God] will never deal unjustly with any one, neither will He task a soul beyond its power. He, verily, is the Compassionate, the All-Merciful.

Baha’u’llah12

I've went through a lot of test and difficulties in my life. I'm still going through them. I'm facing one test now that I've dealt with for years; it's a reoccurring issue that I have to overcome. It occurs when I'm worried about something, in this case financial. It hits me when I'm not concentrating on something else. Lately it's occurred of a morning, instead of at night when I'm going to sleep. It's not occurring at night because I say prayers or repeat prayers I've memorized. I think I will do this of a morning, as well. Once I start my do I can, usually, push the issue aside; although, it tends to comeback when I'm not focused on doing work either physically or mentally.

Gratitude List For 17 Mashíyyat

Today I am thankful...
          ...for the cinnamon rolls I had with my coffee this morning.
          ...that I finished the article Making Lemonade: How we Respond to Life's Tests   by Shadi Toloui-Wallace.
          ...that I have seven Editors Picks for my next edition of the Fantasy newsletter.
          ...that I have 3,690,088 GPs in my Gift Points account.
          ...that my Bank of America account is not overdrawn today.

Selfish Letter3

I
is a selfish letter,
seeking its own pleasure.

I
stands alone
upon the field of life.

I
walks alone
across joyless plains.

I
is single
and always alone.

Footnotes
1  Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, p. 106.
2  Quoted in "Making Lemonade: How We Respond to Life’s Tests" by Shadi Toloui-Wallace http://bahaiteachings.org/making-lemonade-respond-lifes-tests.
3  I posted this in Poet 999 - A Butterfly Emerges From Her Cocoon.