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My best Life decision

The February 5, 2013 prompt for "Blogging Circle of Friends Prompt Forum"  is
Name one of the best decisions you ever made.

One of the best life decisions I have ever made was to declare my belief in Baha'u'llah. I became a Baha'i in the late twentieth century when I realized that Baha'u'llah was the answer to my search. I am not exactly sure when I began my search, but I think it was sometime in my childhood. I did not understand why there were so many religions because I knew that there was only one God.

After I moved to Las Vegas, I heard about Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith. It was when I learned about progressive revelation, that I understood the reason for so many religions. I found out that at periodically God sends a messenger who reflects the Divine attributes to humanity. These messengers, these prophets, came at critical times in history to assist humanity in its next stage of spiritual growth. Baha'u'llah, the latest messenger, declared his mission in 1863 in garden just outside of Baghdad. The Bab, Baha'u'llah's forerunner, whose was also an independent prophet, declared his mission in 1844 in Tehran, Persia (now Iran).

Decisions of faith
affect progress of the soul
in the worlds of God.

Test by test the soul
develops divine attributes
becomes its true self.

Thought for the Day: "Thou hast asked Me concerning the nature of the soul. Know, verily, that the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel..." Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writing of Baha'u'llah, LXXXII, page 158-159