1) brian is here! this kid is awesome, and just keeps getting awesomer by the hour. i think he is still sleeping right now though, so that hasn't changed, BUT he has in so many other ways - in the good sense of course. i'll let you all know what we've been up to.
2) Bahji night - i have some photos of the evening which i will post soon. it was so much fun and exactly what i needed to reconnect with the Holy Land after being away for a week. it was a beautiful night with beautiful company.
3) weddings. the most recent one of my friends enas and eli took place a couple of days ago. i'll post pictures and stories soon. but also another one is coming up in early september - little gigi and my flate mate mariposa. i'll explain in due course :) .
quote of the week:
...it should be noted that in most areas of human behaviour there are acts which are clearly contrary to the law of God and others which are clearly approved or permissible; between these there is often a grey area where it is not immediately apparent what should be done. It has been a human tendency to wish to eliminate these grey areas so that every aspect of life is clearly prescribed. A result of this tendency has been the tremendous accretion of interpretation and subsidiary legislation which has smothered the spirit of certain of the older religions. In the Baha'i Faith moderation, which is so strongly upheld by Baha'u'llah, is applied here also. Provision is made for supplementary legislation by the Universal House of Justice -- legislation which it can itself abrogate and amend as conditions change. There is also a clear pattern already established in the Sacred Scriptures, in the interpretations made by `Abdu'l-Baha and Shoghi Effendi, and in the decisions so far made by the Universal House of Justice, whereby an area of the application of the laws is intentionally left to the conscience of each individual believer. This is the age in which mankind must attain maturity, and one aspect of this is the assumption by individuals of the responsibility for deciding, with the assistance of consultation, their own course of action in areas which are left open by the law of God.
(From a letter dated 5 June 1988 on behalf of the Universal House of Justice)
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