How my junior youth was

Yesterday we went even deeper in confirmation. After that we had pizza and played games I have noticed with the junior youth I have made friends, and today one of them are coming over to hang out.

Donkey in the Well

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the

donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!

 Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Cycle of transformation

Cycle of Transformation

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared, he sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through the little hole.

Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could and could go no further.

Then the man decided to help the butterfly, so he took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon. The butterfly then emerged easily, but it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.

The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.

Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of his life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings.

It was never able to fly!

What the man in his kindness and haste did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening, were God’s way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.

Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our life.

 

I wish you enough

I Wish You Enough

At an airport, I overheard a father and his daughter in their last moments together. They had announced her plane's departure and standing near the door she said, "Daddy, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough too, Daddy.

They kissed good-bye and she left. He walked over towards the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, "Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?"

"Yes, I have," I replied. Saying that brought back memories I had of expressing my love and appreciation for all my Dad had done for me. Recognizing that his days were limited, I took the time to tell him face to face how much he meant to me.  So I knew what this man was experiencing.

   "Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?" I asked.

   "I am old and she lives much too far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is, her next trip back will be for my funeral," he said.

   "When you were saying good-bye I heard you say, 'I wish you enough,' may I ask what that means?"

   He began to smile.  "That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations.  My parents used to say it to everyone."  He paused for a moment and looking up as if trying to remember it in detail.  He smiled even more. "When we said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with enough good things to sustain them."

He continued and then, turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory:

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive.
I wish you enough pain so that the smallest joys in life appear much bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough "Hellos" to get you through the final "Good-bye"

He then began to sob and walked away.

Saying

I got this poster it has a very good message

Buying a miracle

Love and obey your heavenly father, and rest assured that Divine help is yours. Verily I say unto you that you shall indeed conquer the world! Only have faith, patience and courage - this is but the beginning, but surely you will succeed, for God is with you.

Thomas Breakwell

His name is Thomas Breakwell.
Here's some interesting details about him:
He was the first englishman to become Bahai and the first western Bahai to give Huququllah. Also he was the first to make pilgrimage to Akka.
He was taught the faith by May Bolles (Ruhiyyih Khanum's mom) at the age of 29 he declared and then he passed away 1 year later (only at the age of 30).
Abdu'l-Baha wrote a tablet for him and cried twice while he was writing it.






                                                                                                                      By: Gelayal Samii

How my junoir youth was

 Today I just finished my junior youth over video chat because I am in Niagara and my teacher is in Kitchener Canada.
Today we went deeper into the word confirmation. So we read a story about a girl named musonda and her friend Rose. Musunda wants to be a nurse and Rose wants to be a teacher but they are poor so they can't afford to go to school. So they learn what confirmation means so they work their way through life like trying to find nurses and teachers to fulfill their dreams. I got this quote saying; Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship                                                                   From: Romin Agahzadeh

Junoir youth

Today I am doing my junior youth on video chat so excited

Voice of commpassion

I heard a story about Fiorello LaGuardia who was mayor of New York City during the worst days of the Great Depression and all of WWII. He was adored by many New Yorkers who took to calling him the "Little Flower," because of his name and the fact that he was so short and
always wore a carnation in his lapel.

He was a colorful character -- he rode the New York City fire trucks, raided city "speakeasies" with the police department, took entire orphanages to baseball games and, when the New York newspapers went on strike, he got on the radio and read the Sunday funnies to the kids.

One bitterly cold night in January of 1935, the mayor turned up at a night court that served the poorest ward of the city. LaGuardia dismissed the judge for the evening and took over the bench himself. Within a few minutes, a tattered old woman was brought before him, charged with stealing a loaf of bread. She told LaGuardia that he daughter's husband had deserted her, her daughter was sick, and her two grandchildren were starving.

But the shopkeeper, from whom the bread was stolen, refused to drop the charges. "It's a real bad neighborhood, Your Honor," the man told the mayor. "She's got to be punished to teach other people around here a lesson."

LaGuardia sighed. He turned to the woman and said, "I've got to punish you. The law makes no exceptions. Ten dollars or ten days in jail." But even as he pronounced sentence, the mayor was already reaching into his pocket. He extracted a bill and tossed it into his famous hat, saying, "Here is the ten dollar fine which I now remit; and furthermore, I am going to fine everyone in this courtroom fifty cents for living in a town where a person has to steal bread so that her grandchildren can eat. Mr. Bailiff, collect the fines and give them to the defendant."

The following day, New York City newspapers reported that $47.50 was turned over to a bewildered woman who had stolen a loaf of bread to feed her starving grandchildren. Fifty cents of that amount was contributed by the grocery store owner himself, while some seventy petty criminals, people with traffic violations, and New York City policemen, each of whom had just paid fifty cents for the privilege of doing so, gave the mayor a standing ovation.

Someone beautifully said, "Sympathy sees and says, 'I'm sorry.' Compassion sees and says, 'I'll help.'" When we learn the difference, we can make a difference.
  







 O thou the Compassionate God. Bestow upon me a heart which, like unto a glass, maybe illumined with the light of thy love, and confer upon me thoughts which may change this world into a rose garden through the outpourings of heavenly grace. Thou art the Compassionate, the Merciful.  Thou art the Great Beneficent God.
 ~Abdu'l-Baha

Quotes- Jewels from the words of Abdu'l-Baha

Turn your faces away from the contemplation of your own finite selves and fix your eyes upon the everlasting radiance; then will your souls receive in full measure the divine power of the spirit and the blessings of the infinite bounty.

Quotes- Jewels from the words of Abdu'l-Baha

Rely upon God. Trust in him. Praise him, and call him continually to mind. He verily turneth trouble into ease, and sorrow into solace, and toil into utter peace. He verily hath dominion over all things.

Quotes- Jewels from the words of Abdu'l-Baha

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Let us pray to God that the breath of the Holy Spirit may again give hope and refreshment to the people, awakening in them a desire to do the will of God. May heart and soul be vivified in every man so will they all rejoice in a new birth.

Quotes- Jewels from the words of Abdu'l-Baha

Do not wonder at the mercy and bounty of God. Consider thou how one spark sets on fire a great forest. Therefore, there is great hope, and the favour and grace of Almighty is limitless.

Quotes- Jewels from the words of Abdu'l-Baha

Never lose thy trust in God. Be thou ever hopeful, for the bounties of God never cease to flow upon man. If viewed from one perspective they seem to decrease, but from another they are full and complete. Man is under all conditions immersed in a sea of God's blessings. Therefore, be thou not hopeless under any circumstances, but rather be firm in thy hope.
~Abdu'l-Baha




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Another song

Here is a song by Nabil and Karim

A glass of milk

A Glass of milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his ay through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.

He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.

Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry  so brought him a large glass of milk He drank it slowly, and then asked, How
much do I owe you?"

You don't owe me anything," she replied. "Mother has taught us never to accept pay for a kindness."

He said..... "Then I thank you from my heart."

As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, but his faith in God and man was strong also. He had been ready to give up and quit.

Many years later that same young woman became critically ill. The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.

Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the name  of the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately he rose
and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.

Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her at  once.

He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day he gave special attention to her case.

After a long struggle, the battle was won.

Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the bill was sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of  her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill.

She read these words.... .

"Paid in full with one glass of milk"
(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God, that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands." 




Be ye sincerely kind, not in appearance only.
~Abdu'l-Baha  


















 

Sayings

1. Man's merit lies in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches
~Baha'u'llah

2. Service is the magnet which draws the divine confirmations.

3. No power can exist except through unity.
~Baha'u'llah

4. Let not the happenings of the world sadden you.
~Baha'u'llah

5. Those who suffer most,attain to the greatest perfection
~Abdu'l-Baha

6. Act in such a way that your heart maybe free from hatred.
~Abdu'l-Baha

7. In all thine affairs put thy reliance in god, and commit them unto him.

8. Be as a lamp unto them that walk in darkness, a joy to the sorrowful.
~Abdu'l-Baha

9. Human happiness is founded upon spiritual behaviour
~Abdu'l-Baha

10. O son of spirit my first counsel is this possess a pure kindly and radiant heart,that thine maybe a sovereignty ancient,imperishable and everlasting.
~The Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah

What I find effective about my junoir teacher

If you are a teacher or pioneer what I personally find effective in a junior youth class is that if you connect with the student like their your best friend. They will look up to you and listen because their anxious to listen to you its like having a normal conversation with friend. You have to be creative to get their attention or your wasting your time.

Bahai music

Here is some more music from the Dapper Rappers hope you like it I loved it.

Junior youth

On Thursday I am going to junior youth so excited I wonder what am I  going to

What I learned

I forgot to tell you but in my junior youth class I learned that if you say something hurtful to someone it will stay in their heart forever. Like a piece of paper if you crumble it and try to open it up it will never be the same. Another thing is that if you don't fail you can't succeed. Bye for now

how my junior youth was

I just came back from my junior youth and I learned that the word confirmation means that if you work your way through things you will get what you want but it will take time. If you do nothing its not like God will give it to you. I also got a painting that has a good message.







                                                                                By: Gelayal Samii

Hand of the cause

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Hand of the cause

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Hand of the cause

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Power of Words

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