Make my heart to be a receptacle of Thy love and of remembrance of Thee

A mosque in an older neighborhood of Haifa

 

Saturday, April 18

Cluster 19  ~  15th Cycle Expansion Phase – Day 8

Friends, please join us in reciting this prayer today to support the teaching we are engaged in during our expansion phase:

Praise be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee, by Thy Name which none hath befittingly recognized, and whose import no soul hath fathomed; I beseech Thee, by Him Who is the Fountainhead of Thy Revelation and the Dayspring of Thy signs, to make my heart to be a receptacle of Thy love and of remembrance of Thee. Knit it, then, to Thy most great Ocean, that from it may flow out the living waters of Thy wisdom and the crystal streams of Thy glorification and praise. 

The limbs of my body testify to Thy unity, and the hair of my head declareth the power of Thy sovereignty and might. I have stood at the door of Thy grace with utter self-effacement and complete abnegation, and clung to the hem of Thy bounty, and fixed mine eyes upon the horizon of Thy gifts. 

Do Thou destine for me, O my God, what becometh the greatness of Thy majesty, and assist me, by Thy strengthening grace, so to teach Thy Cause that the dead may speed out of their sepulchers, and rush forth towards Thee, trusting wholly in Thee, and fixing their gaze upon the orient of Thy Cause, and the dawning-place of Thy Revelation. 

Thou, verily, art the Most Powerful, the Most High, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

-Bahá’u’lláh

 

And we share this quote for your reflection today:

If only thou couldst know what a high station is destined for those souls who are severed from the world, are powerfully attracted to the Faith, and are teaching, under the sheltering shadow of Baha’u’llah!  How thou wouldst rejoice, how thou wouldst, in exultation and rapture, spread thy wings and soar heavenward  for being a follower of such a way, and a traveller toward such a Kingdom.

-’Abdu’l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of ’Abdu’l-Baha, p. 100

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