O Lord! Make these children excellent plants. Let them grow and develop in the Garden of Thy Covenant, and bestow freshness and beauty through the outpourings from the clouds of the all-glorious Kingdom.

O Thou kind Lord! I am a little child, exalt me by admitting me to the kingdom. I am earthly, make me heavenly; I am of the world below, let me belong to the realm above; gloomy, suffer me to become radiant; material, make me spiritual, and grant that I may manifest Thine infinite bounties.

Thou art the Powerful, the All-Loving.

-‘Abdu’l-Bahá

Sustaining social action: Three women draw from the Baha’i teachings

Three Baha’i women, Sahba Rohani, Syda Taylor and Ridvan Idara, are using their imaginations and Baha’u’llah’s Revelation to envision new possibilities in their communities 

Along with collaborators they are helping to create a context for learning and sustained social action. 

Their actions are in harmony with guidance from the Universal House of Justice, the international governing council of the Baha’i Faith...

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Seed planters at Interfaith Earth Festival express our interconnectedness through art

The term “planting seeds” is often used as a metaphor for the hopeful expectations that accompany new undertakings. In the case of an event sponsored by Faithbridge Interfaith in McHenry County, Illinois, the act of planting seeds was partly literal, partly artistic expression and partly figure of speech.  

As an organization, Faithbridge Interfaith started small and has been blooming over the past 12 years or so. In 2019 they instituted an annual Interfaith Earth Festival to “honor our interconnectedness with all our relations and the sacred earth.”

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Growing Up

A book about life and love, inspired by the Bahá'í Writings

Growing Up tells the story of two children growing into adulthood as they discover more about themselves, about service to others, and about building a foundation for loving relationships.

Growing up is a wonderful read-aloud book for children aged approximately 4 to 12. The book addresses children's curiosity about their own physical changes, developing capacities, and social relationships, in an open-ended way that naturally allows for deeper conversations when needed. And it places physical, mental, emotional, and social changes in a spiritual context, showing that life is about more than just what happens as our bodies mature.

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