Flint Bahai

03/18/2024

If thy daily living become difficult, soon thy Lord will bestow upon thee that which shall satisfy thee. Be patient in the time of affliction and trial, endure every difficulty and hardship with a dilated heart, attracted spirit and eloquent tongue in remembrance of the Merciful. Verily this is the life of satisfaction, the spiritual existence, heavenly repose, divine benediction and the celestial table! Soon thy Lord will extenuate thy straitened circumstances even in this world.

-Abdu'l-Baha

03/04/2024

Let us also bear in mind that the keynote of the Cause of God is not dictatorial authority but humble fellowship, not arbitrary power, but the spirit of frank and loving consultation. Nothing short of the spirit of a true Bahá’í can hope to reconcile the principles of mercy and justice, of freedom and submission, of the sanctity of the right of the individual and of self-surrender, of vigilance, discretion and prudence on the one hand, and fellowship, candor and courage on the other.

— Bahá’í Administration

12/08/2023

The world in the past has been ruled by force, and man has dominated over woman by reason of his more forceful and aggressive qualities both of body and mind. But the balance is already shifting—force is losing its weight and mental alertness, intuition, and the spiritual qualities of love and service, in which woman is strong, are gaining ascendancy. Hence the new age will be an age less masculine, and more permeated with the feminine ideals—or, to speak more exactly, will be an age in which the masculine and feminine elements of civilization will be more evenly balanced.

Abdu'l-Bahá

03/11/2023

INVITATION:

High school youth and young adults are invited to an intensive weekend study at Louhelen at the end of this month. The retreat runs Friday evening March 24th through Monday lunch March 27th. Please check out this registration form and pass it on to youth in your community. Book 1 can be made available for those wanting to start participating in the Institute Process!

Registration for Youth Institute at Louhelen March 24-27 2023

Location: Louhelen Bahá'í Center of Learning in Davison, Michigan Contact Info: [email protected] or call Paul Harrison at (734)945-8541

02/22/2023

At the heart of the divisions in society today is a crisis of identity. The way people think
about who they are and how they see their place in the world determine how they relate to others
and what they regard as their individual and collective purpose. For Bahá’ís, it is the Manifestation
of God, the Voice of God to the world, who defines human nature and purpose. Bahá’u’lláh
describes the purpose of human life as essentially spiritual in nature. An individual’s true self is
to be found in the powers of the soul, which has the capacity to know God and to reflect His
attributes. The soul has no gender, no ethnicity, no race. God sees no differences among human
beings except in relation to the conscious effort of each individual to purify his or her soul and to
express its full powers. In God’s sight, all human beings are as one and have the common duty of
knowing and worshiping Him and contributing to advancing civilization. This truth is directly
related to another—that humanity is one family. A loving Lord has “created all humanity from the
same stock”. He has “decreed that all shall belong to the same household”. “Since We have created
you all from one same substance”, Bahá’u’lláh has stated, “it is incumbent on you to be even as
one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that
from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of
detachment may be made manifest.

THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
1 November 2022

12/02/2022

The Baha'i Feast

O thou artery pulsating in the body of the world!

Verily I read thy recent letter which indicated conscious joy and abundant happiness from the glad-tidings of the Kingdom of El-Abha. Know, verily that the feast is the day wherein God opened thine insight through the Manifest Light, showed thee unto His Great Kingdom and granted to thee to drink from the chalice overflowing with the wine of divine guidance among the maid-servants. Is there a feast more happy and more noble than this? No, indeed, by the Lord of Heaven, it is a day wherein the thirsty one attaineth to the Spring from which gusheth forth cool and refreshing water, the lover meeteth his Loved One and the sick one is healed by the remedy of the Physician. Blessed art thou for attaining unto this!

10/19/2022

05/23/2022

Patience
Once there was a poor, unhappy man who lived in
‘Akká. He was not friendly to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. He would stand
up in the mosque and tell the people not to have anything
to do with ‘Abdu’l-Bahá. But ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was always
friendly to this unhappy man. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá sent food, warm
clothes, and medicine to this man when he needed them.
The poor man always accepted these things but never
thanked ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and continued to say mean things
about Him. Many years passed by. Then one day there was
a knock on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s door. The poor man was there,
crying bitterly. He fell to the ground at the feet of ‘Abdu’lBahá. “Forgive me, Sir!” he cried. “For 24 years I have done
evil to you. For 24 years you have done good to me. Now I
know I have been in the wrong.” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá gently told
him to stand up, and they became friends.
Adapted from Jacqueline Mehrabi, Three Gifts of Love, p. 23
Brilliant Books, 2004

05/05/2022

03/27/2022

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