Devotional meetings are everywhere
Written by ry on April 11th, 2006Aside from the strange opening about the difficulty of spelling ‘Baha’i’ (don’t worry, we know exactly what you’re talking about) there’s a great story up in the Huntsville Times about an interfaith devotional meeting held by the Hiebert family of Huntsville, Alabama in the US:
And some people have trouble understanding that when the Hieberts invite people to an “Interfaith Devotional,” they mean just that.
It’s not a Baha’i prayer meeting, though Baha’i prayers are included along with readings from the Bible, the Quran and other holy scriptures. It’s not a Baha’i entrapment where guests must listen to an explanation of the obscure, but worldwide faith.
It’s just people. Praying together after eating some of Ruhi’s saffron-scented rice pilaf. Listening to prayer songs from the world’s faiths. Laughing together over cheesecake and coffee.
For those of us who came into the Baha'i Faith through the ever popular 
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true…i was with an aquaintance (not a Bahai ) who had just recived news of the death of a friend ,she was too far away to be at the funeral …the only thing there that provided some comfort was the poetry of a Bahai prayer which we said together…Bahai or not,planned or impromptu…devotionals really are everywhere ,and we all seem to be better for it …