I wrote this post for BahaiTeachings.org on March 4, 2020, before any lockdowns were declared, but hoarding was beginning. Since the publication of this article, it’s been shared and read hundreds of thousands of times (or more?), particularly in the early days as implications of pandemic were dawning on residents outside of China and Italy.…
With each passing year, the raw jolt of the memory of 9/11/01 seems to fade a bit more. This year I feel the “fade” more than the “jolt.” I know I’m not alone. So I went back to the archive of a piece I wrote for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, in 2011. It revolved around inspiration…
(This piece originally appeared at www.BahaiTeachings.org and expresses the author’s personal views. It subsequently appeared on the Huffington Post.) The day after the horrific shootings in Newtown, Conn., at the busy Trader Joe’s near my home in Pennsylvania, a well-dressed, middle-aged man behind me in line had a large button on that read “Freedom First.…
Once school started the first week of January, everyone’s schedules kicked into high gear. But something stopped my family in our tracks last week, and each day for the last few, we found time to get together to pray, beseech, contemplate and think beyond our immediate circumstances. In spite of the busy-ness, we acknowledged so…
