Reflections in the Garden (the “missing” Sunday blessings, music, & links) April 21, 2024

“Happy Riḍván!” to those celebrating “the Most Great Festival.” Many blessings to everyone, and especially to anyone observing Great Lent! Happy National Poetry Month!

This is the “missing” post with music links for Sunday, April 21^st. My apologies for not posting before the practice. You can request an audio recording of this practice via a comment below or (for a slightly faster reply) you can email myra (at) ajoyfulpractice.com.

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“The song title is taken from: ‘We, verily, have made music as a ladder for your souls, a means whereby they may be lifted up unto the realm on high; make it not, therefore, as wings to self and passion.’ – Baha’u’llah, Kitab-i-Aqdas”

— quoted from liner notes for the song “Ladder for the Soul” by Taraz Nosrat

Sunday’s playlist is available on YouTube and Spotify. [Look for “Ridvan 181 BE 2024”]

Music Notes: With a few obvious exceptions (at the beginning and end), this music is composed and performed by Bahá’i musicians and inspired by the Bahá’i Faith. One track in the before/after music is different on each platform. My intention was to include the track below during the practice music; however I could not find it on Spotify.

Oneness

“‘So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth’ – Abdu’l-Bahá”

— quoted from the liner notes for the song “So Powerful” by Taraz Nosrat 

CLICK HERE and scroll down to the “ENTERING THE GARDEN” section for information about this practice.

“We rejoice to see, in every country and region, true practitioners of peace occupied with building this haven. We see it in every account of a heart being enkindled with the love of God, a family opening up its home to new friends, collaborators drawing on Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings to address a social problem, a community strengthening a culture of mutual support, a neighbourhood or village learning to initiate and sustain the actions necessary for its own spiritual and material progress, a locality being blessed with the emergence of a new Spiritual Assembly.”

— quoted from the Riḍván 2022 message from the Universal House of Justice “To the Bahá’is of the World”

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