Yeah, I'm bad at posting often

I loved taking the animator training this month. It's been three years since I could just sit back and TAKE a course and not worry about tutoring. It's so much more fun to see the material for the first time! I am not very good at being a participant though. I had to stifle to strong urge to tutor, and sometimes the urge won.

Studying about Junior Youth helped me so much to put into perspective my own goals and ideas. I am so excited now about finding a way to work with youth in a career sort of way. At the same time, that means I have to find a way to do it and I don't really now where to start. I don't want to be a teacher. I'm not really interested in social work and although money is not a high priority, I would prefer not to starve. This does not leave any obvious options, but I know I'll be able to make it work.


My good friend Justin came to visit this week. It was so good to see him. I had forgotten how good it is to really talk about religion and belief and goals and ideals. Its so easy to really focus on the fundamental truths of the religion of God when talking with someone who is not Baha'i.

Topics of Conversation:

God's Calling in our lives

The role of Youth in Religious life

The spirituality of appropriate sexuality

Using interfiath dialouge to strengthen spirituality, not water it down


I miss having friends of other faiths around. Sometimes I learn much more from these others than from Baha'is because as Baha'is I tend to feel like we all know the same stuff and we do not seek a more profound understanding, just a more complex one. When I study personally the faith, I so often fall into the trap of wanting to know minute details about Baha'i history, trivia, administrative guidance, huququ etc and I forget that what my soul really needs is to remember the simple and stunningly profound Truths that I can find in any holy book. It was good to see Justin.