Devotional meetings are everywhere
Aside 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.
April 11th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
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 …