fasting 2016

With A  mixed  joy and sadness have  approach  this  Fast   

I know  am disobeying  my Lord  yea  He has dispensed  us from fasting  due  to  health issues

But the  Call  for the lovers  of Baha  ring  to my soul  and i cant  resist  to say  here i  am here i am O my Lord

I am a sinner oh My God  and i beg forgiveness .

All praise be unto God, Who hath… enjoined on them the Fast that those possessed of means may become apprised of the woes and sufferings of the destitute. (Bahá’u’lláh in The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting)

Blessed is the one who through the heat generated by the Fast increaseth his love, and who, with joy and radiance, ariseth to perform worthy deeds. (Bahá’u’lláh in The Importance of Obligatory Prayer and Fasting)

“These are Thy servants, O my Lord, who have entered with Thee in
this, the Most Great Prison, who have kept the fast within its walls
according to what Thou hadst commanded them in the Tablets of Thy
decree and the Books of Thy behest.”
        (Baha'u'llah:  Prayers and Meditations, Page: 145)

So by fasting it is as if we have accepted to enter into the Most
Great Prison with Baha’u’llah!  What a glorious surrender of one’s
will to the will of the Beloved; and what incredible nearness that
involves.

 I felt that due to my health issues have limit my outside
activities and spend a great deal of time in my room sleeping ...

  meditating
and communing with God.  And  some days  I’ve felt it was better to go on
with my life as usual and make use of the spiritual energies which are
released in my interactions with other people. 

For some Baha’is fasting is an effortless affair.  They hardly notice
it. For others it can be excruciatingly difficult and they really do
have to struggle with it, and they feel miserable during the entire
month; and for others it is just not possible due to their physical
condition.  For those who cannot fast, the fast is an especially great
test.  Sometimes they struggle with feelings of guilt and
unworthiness.  Sometimes they feel alienated from those Baha’is who
can fast so effortlessly and say so.  I believe that God has specially
tender feelings of loving acceptance for those who struggle in this
way, and they are the ones which receive the greatest benefits from
the fast.

Nobody knows whether their fast will be accepted by God; but I believe
that it will be if it is motivated by the will to show one’s love and
obedience to God

"These are, O my God, the days whereon Thou didst enjoin Thy servants
to observe the fast. With it Thou didst adorn the preamble of the Book
of Thy Laws revealed unto Thy creatures, and didst deck forth the
Repositories of Thy commandments in the sight of all who are in Thy
heaven and all who are on Thy earth. Thou hast endowed every hour of
these days with a special virtue, inscrutable to all except Thee,
Whose knowledge embraceth all created things. Thou hast, also,
assigned unto every soul a portion of this virtue in accordance with
the Tablet of Thy decree and the Scriptures of Thine irrevocable
judgment."
        (Baha'u'llah, Prayers and Meditations by Baha'u'llah, p. 143)

If what Baha'u'llah has revealed is exact spiritual truth, as I
believe it is, then I would want to get the benefit of these precious
hours of fasting, since each hour has been endowed with a special
virtue.

6:16 Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad
countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto
men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

6:17 But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy
face; 6:18 That thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father
which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall
reward thee openly.
        (King James Bible, Matthew)

Some people do not think that it is good to fast. But they do not know that they fast every night when they sleep. Fasting is not eating and you do not eat while you sleep. When you stop the fast, you break the fast. That is the word you use for stopping the fast. This is why the first meal of the day is called break-fast!

The Fast is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul.

Emtyness  

Say a prayer. Then, make an attempt to clear your mind of all extraneous thought, and listen to your spirit.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet

This  fast has bring me  nearer  to the  Source  of All

ooh  prayers  is so sweet  no i don’t need sugar for my stamina

4 days to go Papijoon

15 -3-2016