Passages from the Baha’i Writings: - to read and reflect upon --> daily and every other day

Every day:

Daily Verses of God - revealed by Bahá'u'lláh and the Báb

Every second day:

Counsels and Explanations by 'Abdu'l-Baha

Spiritual Food for Thought -- from 'Abdu'l-Baha, Shoghi Effendi, and Universal House of Justice

Every second-day – from the Baha’i Writings --> with suggested descriptive headings:

Vision and Insight from the Baha'i Sacred Writings

Baha’u’llah’s station: – some excerpts from ‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’

• “a faint reflection” of God’s Reality within Baha’u’llah was revealed to humanity
• Baha’u’llah’s station and significance of this Day
• “the gate of heaven” hath been unlocked
• “Through Baha’u’llah’s “captivity the standards of Thine [God’s] almighty power were hoisted”; Baha’u’llah’s station: “Thou art, in very truth, the Self-Subsisting as testified by the tongue of God, the All-Glorious, the one alone Beloved; and Thou art the Desire of the world…”
• The Báb asking God’s blessing for the “Tree of the Bayan” “to be made into a magnificent Scroll" to be offered to Baha’u’llah

Events transpiring through God’s “Name”

Glory be to Thee, O Lord my God! I implore Thee by Thy Name,

• through which Thou didst lift up the ensigns of Thy guidance, and didst shed the radiance of Thy loving-kindness, and didst reveal the sovereignty of Thy Lordship;
• through which the lamp of Thy names hath appeared within the niche of Thine attributes, and He Who is the Tabernacle of Thy unity and the Manifestation of detachment hath shone forth;
• through which the ways of Thy guidance were made known, and the paths of Thy good pleasure were marked out;
• through which the foundations of error have been made to tremble, and the signs of wickedness have been abolished;
• through which the fountains of wisdom have burst forth, and the heavenly table hath been sent down;
• through which Thou didst preserve Thy servants and didst vouchsafe Thy healing;
• through which Thou didst show forth Thy tender mercies unto Thy servants and revealedst Thy forgiveness amidst Thy creatures—

I implore Thee to keep safe him who hath held fast and returned unto Thee, and clung to Thy mercy, and seized the hem of Thy loving providence. Send down, then, upon him Thy healing, and make him whole, and endue him with a constancy vouchsafed by Thee, and a tranquillity bestowed by Thy highness.

Thou art, verily, the Healer, the Preserver, the Helper, the Almighty, the Powerful, the All-Glorious, the All-Knowing. 

- Baha’u’llah  (‘Prayers and Meditations by Baha’u’llah’)

“I yield Thee such thanks…” – by Baha’u’llah

Praise be to Thee, O my God, that Thou hast revealed Thy favours and Thy bounties; and glory be to Thee, O my Beloved, that Thou hast manifested the Day-Star of Thy loving-kindness and Thy tender mercies.

• I yield Thee such thanks as can direct the steps of the wayward towards the splendours of the morning light of Thy guidance, and enable those who yearn towards Thee to attain the seat of the revelation of the effulgence of Thy beauty.
• I yield Thee such thanks as can cause the sick to draw nigh unto the waters of Thy healing, and can help those who are far from Thee to approach the living fountain of Thy presence.
• I yield Thee such thanks as can divest the bodies of Thy servants of the garments of mortality and abasement, and attire them in the robes of Thine eternity and Thy glory, and lead the poor unto the shores of Thy holiness and all sufficient riches.
• I yield Thee such thanks as can enable the Heavenly Dove to warble forth, upon the branches of the Lote-Tree of Immortality, her song: “Verily, Thou art God. No God is there besides Thee. From eternity Thou hast been exalted above the praise of aught else but Thee, and been high above the description of any one except Thyself.”
• I yield Thee such thanks as can cause the Nightingale of Glory to pour forth its melody in the highest heaven: “‘Alí (the Báb), in truth, is Thy servant, Whom Thou hast singled out from among Thy Messengers and Thy chosen Ones, and made Him to be the Manifestation of Thyself in all that pertaineth unto Thee, and that concerneth the revelation of Thine attributes and the evidences of Thy names.”
• I yield Thee such thanks as can stir up all things to extol Thee, and to glorify Thine Essence, and can unloose the tongues of all beings to magnify the sovereignty of Thy beauty.
• I yield Thee such thanks as can fill the heavens and the earth with the signs of Thy transcendent Essence, and assist all created things to enter the Tabernacle of Thy nearness and Thy presence.