#Weekly Prayers

[betterlifeinoverall-rethabilep]

Train Your Mind And Fluency In Love Language

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[dynamitekansai]

wwe: Jacob Fatu is easily the scariest man on the roster. 🫣😰

[endless-ineffabilities]

me praying for the absolute feral animal I will become once season 2 of House of the Dragon rolls in and Aemond Targaryen becomes a main character and shows up in (potentially) every episode.

if I thought I was down bad in season 1 ....

[thaiteaprincess]

If anyone wants/needs prayers, add them here and I'll pray them at mass next sunday

[notwritinganyflufftoday]

Weekly Overview (9 Sept - 15 Sept)

A Little Prayer for Dead Gods - First Draft Process

Week Total: 6.487 words

Overall Total: 15.829 / 70.000 words

Favourite line:

In an instant the reality of the situation dawns on him. The orbs of light are Gods in their infancy and he has brought an executioner to a nursery.

Taglist: @fromthenortheast, @foxgloves-garden

[7races]

I pray jhene aiko is doing well

[p2ii]

Being transmasc and exmuslim is like: oh you are going to have the most fucked up relationship with your period ever

(Should be obvious but terfs/radfems dni)

[bataranqs]

5 Happy Things

July 2, 2024

i just found out The Bear is a comedy. what do you mean. every other fic on ao3 for this show is a ptsd-riddled, abuse recovery story. help???

thing that i was dreading turned out to be a pretty good time!!!

saw many people that i like today <3

@sirlucina getting super into "i love amy" with me (an incredible story from what i've read so far) i'm so glad that i have a friend who shares and potentially exceeds my love for it

ate a solid three meals today babyyyy let's goooo

[vulpiximisa]

my regular moots watching me go from fandom to fandom in less than a week

[bookwyrminspiration]

no pressure but what's it like being raised in the bahá'í faith? I've read a bit about it before and then just reread some stuff upon seeing ur tags and it actually speaks pretty well to how I describe my relationship with religion as a Catholic raised agnostic (I think that all religions hold potential truths and that there's not really a truly fully "correct" religion) so I'm curious what it's like to actually live with it/the practices & beliefs ^^

(heads up: this got a little long)

I'd imagine its quite similar to being raised in other beliefs--the beliefs themselves just vary.

For context, my family joined the baha'i faith when I was 5, and I stayed until I was 15--which is the official age you can decide for yourself, and I'd already figured out I was an atheist (though I never did the paperwork, so officially i'm still counted in the census). So I've got about 10 years experience in the faith, though I've never been a religious person

Like you said, the Baha'i faith thinks there is a truth to all religions. There's one God and every so often he sends a prophet to remind us of his teachings--Abraham, Mohammad, Jesus, etc. The most recent is Bahá’u’lláh, born about 200 years ago, which is who Baha'is follow now--and will until the next prophet.

The faith is huge on unity; it's like the core tenet. We are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch, humanity is a collective so we should be uplifting and supporting everyone--including people we disagree with. Which meant it was a very kind and supportive environment focused on mutual aid and service. Trips to the food bank to volunteer, visits to each other when in need, that kind of thing

Like in other religions, we did things on Sundays, meeting at the Baha'i center. There we'd have the toddler's classes (up to age 5), children's classes (5-10), junior youth (11-15), and then the adult sessions (which I never went to myself); this way everything was in one building at the same time. So growing up that just meant I'd be busy Sunday mornings and had to plan around that.

Every 19 days would be a feast day, marking the start of another month (there are 19 months with 19 days each). These would typically be held at a member's house, and they'd house their sector. It's pot-luck style and there people would read prayers, listen to music, and talk about the value of the month (each month has a different value--we just ended Mulk/Dominion). Things like why it was important, in what ways, how to incorporate it into our lives for the next 19 days.

Also I should mention--the Baha'i community is rather small. The religion is only about 200 years old, so it's a rather close-knit community here. We were friends or at least friendly with practically everyone, and there were few kids, so we all knew each other and grew up kinda together.

Feast is held in the evening though, which means the most consistent attendees are the older people--parents with kids had to be conscious of bedtimes and whether it was a school night, so my family didn't attend all of them.

Then there'd be the Holy Days--Naw-Rúz (New Year), 1st, 9th, and 12th days of Ridván, the twins' (Bahá’u’lláh and the Báb) births and martyrdoms, etc. Then we'd all meet at the Baha'i Center in the evenings, where there'd be a program, music, praying, and then we'd go eat--which was also potluck, but on a bigger scale. The faith originated in Iran, so a good portion of the community is Persian and a lot of the food I grew up with there was, too.

I don't think this is too different from what other religions do, it's just the specific Holy Days and what/who we're remembering that's different.

What was different for me--and for a lot of non-christian/catholic raised kids was the constant underlying knowledge that you're different. You don't see your prayers, your symbols (nine pointed star is the main one), your holy figures, your practices anywhere. You make christmas crafts at school and think: this isn't actually my holiday, but here I am anyway. And there's this feeling of wanting to say something, to distinguish yourself because you know people are assuming you're christian/catholic otherwise. Because it's the default and you're an outlier.

I have never met a Baha'i person outside of the center, outside of the people I've known since I was 5. Nobody knows what the Baha'i faith is, what it's beliefs are. Everywhere I go it's with the knowledge there's a 99% chance I'm the only one in the room--and the thing is, I'm atheist. I don't believe in any god, and yet because the Baha'i faith is such a minority it's important for me to still maintain that connection that separates me from the assumptions people make. Every time it comes up, I'm already prepared to explain because I know no one else knows about it, so to be Baha'i or former Baha'i is to be an ambassador, a resource as much as I can be even with my limited experience--because it's also not a closed religion. They love to spread the teachings and get people attending. One of the times my family hosted feast my friends who lived down the street came and we competed to see who could say the most prayers (though stuff to do with budget and that kind of thing is a little more for members only)

I'm kinda jumping around to think of other info, apologies. There's a daily prayer facing Bahá’u’lláh's shrine once you're a Youth (above 15), and that's also when you start participating in the fast. During the month (19 days) of Ala, you don't eat from sunrise to sunset. There's also the pilgrimage to...Bahgdad? Haifa? No one in my family has taken it, so I can't remember the location off the top of my head, but the point is there are locations of importance (like shrines and temples) in that area of the world where Baha'is' goal is to visit at least once in their life. One of the other kids I knew did a year of service after high school and went on her pilgrimage before starting college.

This has gotten a little long so I'll wrap up here but that was generally what it was like/what was up. Very community and service focused, very warm and friendly. It just meant certain days I had things going on others didn't (attending the Naw-Rúz celebration that evening, for example), and that it was always something I knew was different about my life compared to the community I was in.

This answer feels quite scattered and eclectic, so if anyone has any follow up questions feel free to ask and I'll do my best to answer :)

[arrthurpendragon]

Meowy Christmas

The Prologue of  The Prayer has been returned to AO3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43841175/chapters/110233233

[slightly-sideblog]

i just laughed and cried and hyperventilated for like three minutes because of you saying you thank the lord for having hato moa create tohri thank you so so much for this information im living with it forever

AHSKFDHDJ I DIDNT EXPECT TO PRODUCE THAT REACTION BUT GLAD I ????? MADE U LAUGH???? personally i see prayer as a way to express heartfelt gratitude and have a conversation with god so like. yeah i’m gonna tell him what’s on my heart. it’s tohri. amen.

[pastorj]

Live In The Light

Bible Truth: The central truth of Christmas is that God came down to earth and took upon Himself the form of humanity. Memory Verse: "Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children." - Ephesians 5:1

Week of December 19, 2022 Monday��– Light Dawns for the Righteous – Psalm 97 Tuesday – The Way of Darkness – Ephesians 4:17-24 Wednesday – Putting Away the Old Ways – Ephesians 4:25-32 Thursday – Be Careful How You Live – Ephesians 5:15-20 Friday – We Have Seen His Star – Matthew 2:1-11 Saturday – We Have Seen His Glory – John 1:6-14 Sunday – Light Shines in the Darkness – John 1:1-5;…

[notwritinganyflufftoday]

Weekly Overview (2 Sept - 8 Sept)

A Little Prayer for Dead Gods - First Draft Progress

Week total: 7.332 words

Overall total: 10.977 / 70.000 words

Favourite line:

"I think we both know exactly why you're here," Sasha motions to himself, "You can't resist this."

[wellthatsclever]

If you find female friendship with another woman and it's low maintenance and when you spend time together you're not constantly just gossiping.. hold on tight. Hold on real tight.