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Unity – and Birth of Baha’u’llah

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This is the Day in which God’s most excellent favors have been poured out upon men, the Day in which His most mighty grace hath been infused into all created things.

It is incumbent upon all the peoples of the world to reconcile their differences, and, with perfect unity and peace, abide beneath the shadow of the Tree of His care and loving-kindness.

It behoveth them to cleave to whatsoever will, in this Day, be conducive to the exaltation of their stations, and to the promotion of their best interests.

(Baha’u’llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah, p. 5)

Today we are anticipating the Birth of Baha’u’llah.

We made some unity cards in my BESS class, and the children learnt the song Ye are Drops of one ocean. The last few weeks we have been learning about the Life of Baha’u’llah. We have also been learning some of his writings by heart.

We are off to a celebration tonight with our Baha’i community, and Saturday the community is inviting more of our friends to a celebration.

How are you celebrating the Birth of Baha’u’llah in your community?

It’s a joyous time !

Some good links to read about today’s Holy Day

http://www.dayspring-magazine.org.uk/dayspring/bahaullah/index.htm
(Some great things to print out for the kids.)

http://birth-of-baha-u-llah.123holiday.net/
(A good summary of the holy day.)

Posts on Bess Lesson Plans

If you are keen to access my Baha’i Education lesson plans let me know who you are and how you are using them and I will send you a password to those posts.  As I sometimes reflect on the lessons I decided that I would require this for people wishing to read them, but I do like to share them and notice I have many visits from people looking for lesson plans.  There are some great sites in my links you will enjoy accessing, so don’t forget to look down the side of the site.

Within my posts I often put other links that I have found useful.  I may do a public reflection post on the whole year to share- a kind of summary so look out for that one.  My latest resource purchase has been a series of Anticolouring books, which are useful for all sorts of teaching projects, art, maths, imaginative thinking, and spiritual education.  I must review that and recommend them to you! I was so excited to look through them as I ordered them on line.

email junepaisaATyahoo.com.au  (at symbol, I put it this way to avoid spam if I can)
and just introduce yourself and let me know how you are putting my lesson plans and reflections to use.

By the way many of my lesson plans are of course based on the Ruhi Resources, or on the Peace Pack series, but I do like all teachers, adapt and collect additional resources, like stories, games, black line masters, and a method of delivering the classes that suits my students – and I am also writing original songs for my students to learn on themes like Thankfulness etc.