On the Significance of Ruhi to Baha’is: More mentions

At the fireside I attended last Saturday there were so many people I didn’t know.  I thought they were from out of town. No, they were from Pierce Peninsula in our cluster. Hearing them speak  so knowledgeably about the Faith, I assumed they were Baha’is of long-standing. In fact, they were newly registered, their knowledge the fruit of the Ruhi Institute process. -gw 

This semester I’ve been meeting weekly with a Baha’i study group.  This week we talked about prayer.

It hit me tonight. I haven’t prayed in a very long time, and suddenly I’m not okay with that.  I think for a long time I’ve associated prayer with asking some faceless God for things that deep down I know may or may not happen, because I’ve felt for a long time that God does not have a hand in the events of the earth any longer.

But, in that statement… I feel like that there is a God, and he/she/The Divine Power that is God, does have something to offer, even if he has stopped involving himself directly in the affairs of humanity.

This thought came after we discussed the Prophet Muhammed’s thought that “prayer is like a ladder, suspended between heaven and earth by which we can ascend to paradise” (a summary from the Ruhi Institute book) along with the Long Obligatory Prayer.

http://windowsandthings.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/i-guess-you-would-call-this-an-epiphany/

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I put through my working with children check today.  So now if i need to be in charge of young people, it’s actually legal, lol.  We’ve almost finished Ruhi book 5 semi-intensively, so if i actually had time, I could start a junior youth group.

http://thustin.livejournal.com/10978.html

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Before leaving, vandals sprayed hateful slurs and insults on gas and water tanks found on the cemetery grounds. These slurs contain spelling mistakes suggesting that the vandals may have been young or uneducated. One of the insults contains a reference to the Ruhi program, a series of study courses offered by the Baha’i community to serve the spiritual and educational needs of the greater community.

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2009/02/semnan-cemetery/

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By obeying the commandments, I can open the doors to what is possible in both this world and the world to come.  I can’t figure any of this out on my own. by the way. What little awareness of meaning that I have is due to studying the Writings, participation in Ruhi study circles, prayer and consistent participation in 12 step groups so that my “idle fancies and vain imaginings” have less effect on me, “one day at a time”.

http://angelfly72.blogspot.com/2009/02/thoughts-about-gods-commandments.html 

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In our IPG area there are many people who want to know more about the Faith and become Baha’is that it is like picking out the roses in a flower garden. The core team literally has to slow down teaching efforts, because of the need for more Ruhi tutors and children’s class teachers.

Comment to http://meetingthedualchallenge.blogspot.com/2009/02/beauty-of-tag-team-teaching.html

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Un número de personas que compartieron sus experiencias durante las sesiones plenarias. Sonia, of the Canary Islands, said she had participated in a study circle, using Book 1 of the Ruhi curriculum, with five women who were not Baha’is. Sonia, de las Islas Canarias, dijo que había participado en un círculo de estudio, utilizando el libro 1 de la Ruhi currículo, con cinco mujeres que no se bahaíes. “At the end of the book, all of them wanted to declare themselves Baha’is,” she said. “Al final del libro, todos ellos quería declararse bahaíes,” ella dijo.  

http://www.idiomaswatson.com/noticiasbahais/?p=111