Writing in Snow

Saturday Review of My Week

Jalál (Glory), 4 Bahá (Splendor) 175 B.E. - Saturday, March 24, 2018

It is the day of Glory. It is four days into the New Year of 175 B.E. What have I accomplished so far this year? A better question, this early in the year, is "What have I accomplished this week?" I have accomplished several things, first, I have placed my weekly goals in a separate document that I can week to contain new goals. That way I can just edit the document when I accomplish a goal, and it allows me to keep track of the daily and weekly goals. Second, I have read several pages in the publication "The Baha'is", which has given me some ideas for poems to work on this year. I begin in "Motivational Monday: Eighteenth Day of Fast"  to place the quotes in that book in the entries for this book. The idea was to write poems based on each quote, and I have written and posted the poems in "Motivational Monday: Eighteenth Day of Fast"  and "Nineteenth Day of Fast" . I have to restart this project today.

"Should the lamp of religion be obscured, chaos and confusion will ensure, and the lights of fairness and justice, of tranquility and peace cease to shine."

Baha'u'llah1

Veils Conceal

Veils conceal
the lamps of peace and tranquility,
darkness spreads
through the minds of humanity
and across the Earth.

Dogma's veils shroud
the light of religion's love,
while dross of hate
covers fanatical minds and souls.

Confession reigns,
death and destruction
throw humanity into chaos,
and many blame religion
because blind followers
follow blind leaders.

The Divine Messengers
taught peace and unity,
this present chaos
results from those worship power
not the worshipers of God.

Footnotes
1  Quoted in "The Baha'is" page 7.