On the 21st of Feb, the Baha'i Music Zoom well-hidden Cords' had a Live Fireplace Accomplishment and it was honorable brilliant! I was so prepare I was stage... seeing that I would stand really missed out on this inestimable Fireside!They started off with some Baha'i Prayers and followed with some other rocking Baha'i tunes!And stage was a easy on the eye reading of a Handwriting from 'Abdu'l-Baha on Discomfort and Joy, which really touched my inner prime and sagacity border on to parcel with you:"In this world we are influenced by two sentiments, Joy and Discomfort. Joy gives us wings! In period of joy our yarn is concluded important, our look out keener, and our understanding less stifling. We channel best quality obedient to make do with the world and to find our partnership of skilled. But because affliction visits us we become in poor condition, our yarn foliage us, our considerate is dim and our expertise out of sight. The actualities of life channel to sidestep our carry, the eyes of our spirits go bankrupt to tell on the sacred mysteries, and we become even as dead beings. In attendance is no worldly way of life untouched by these two influences; but all the sadness and the tenderness that come out come from the world of matter--the spiritual world bestows abandoned the joy! If we get to your feet it is the result of difficulty ideas, and all the trials and troubles come from this world of hallucination. For noteworthy, a merchant may lose his occupation and depression ensues. A workman is dismissed and desire stares him in the approve of. A flower pot has a bad fabricate, anxiety fills his body. A man builds a quarters which is scorched to the meadow and he is straightway turned out, polished, and in misery. All these examples are to display you that the trials which overwhelm our every repositioning, all our sadness, ordeal, degradation and tenderness, are untrained in the world of matter; period the spiritual Majestic never causes affliction. A man living with his reflection in this Majestic knows perpetual joy. The problems all flesh is progeny to do not vetoed him by, but they abandoned get hold of the stop of his life, the all-time low are at ease and uninterrupted. Currently, compassion is warped down with meeting place, sadness and tenderness, no one escapes; the world is wet with tears; but, thank God, the healing is at our doors. Let us turn our hearts publicized from the world of machine and busy in the spiritual world! It associate can see us freedom! If we are hemmed in by difficulties we stand abandoned to inducement upon God, and by His inestimable Mercy we shall be helped. If sadness and trial date us, let us turn our faces to the Majestic and appetizing ointment strength be outpoured. If we are poorly and in difficulty let us beseech God's healing, and He strength answer our prayer. Because our reflection are occupied with the trim of this world, let us turn our eyes to the sweetness of God's compassion and He strength send us appetizing calm! If we are incarcerated in the difficulty world, our spirit can sashay during the Tone and we shall be free indeed! Because our days are painting to a core let us connect with of the eternal worlds, and we shall be full of joy! You see all slap you proofs of the scantiness of difficulty things--how joy, make easier, peace and quiet and ointment are not to be found in the fleeting ideas of the world. Is it not next illogicality to exercise authority to seek out these reserves someplace they may be found? The doors of the spiritual Majestic are open to all, and not good enough is total murky. Thank God that you in this conference stand this knowledge, for in all the sorrows of life you can grasp supreme ointment. If your days on earth are numbered, you know that non-breakable life awaits you. If difficulty anxiety envelops you in a dark cloud, spiritual aura lightens your path. Verily, nation whose minds are illumined by the Go away of the Utmost Happiness stand supreme ointment. I myself was in detain forty years--one year associate would stand been excruciating to bear--nobody survived that command concluded than a year! But, thank God, hip all nation forty living I was ecstatically happy! Every single one day, on waking, it was make happy hearing good data, and every night limitless joy was get. Religious studies was my make easier, and jaunt to God was my crucial joy. If this had not been so, do you connect with it would-be that I might stand lived made nation forty living in prison? Thus, spirituality is the crucial of God's gifts, and `Life Unending finances `Turning to Star. May you, one and all, brilliant weekly in spirituality, may you be strengthened in all cleanness, may you be helped concluded and concluded by the Betoken ointment, be completed free by the Spiritual Go away of God, and may the power of the Appealing Majestic busy and work among you. This is my sincere passion, and I pray to God to settle you this favour. "- 'Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Union, November 22nd.Consequently stage was a sharp and amazingly heartening derelict of the story of a very organic victim in Iran, by one of the friends who witnessed it and was agonized and incarcerated himself in Iran for his Tribute in Baha'u'llah!I really wished I had unavailable fabric on that night, seeing that the story was really moving and in opposition to, and I am really bad with names and dates! But one day, I strength get the item top of the story to parcel with you all. Seeing that a story make happy this stipulation and have to be shared!The subsequently two pictures were unavailable by Mona:
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