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Baha’i Blog’s “Studio Sessions” is an initiative where we invite Baha’is and their friends from around the world to come into a studio and share the Baha’i Writings put to music.
In this Baha’i Blog Studio Session, we’re in Helsinki, Finland with Mea Karvonen and Mitra Matouf who sing “The Bright Day is Coming”, based on a prayer by Abdu’l-Baha.
This song was filmed and recorded in Helsinki, Finland, November 2016.
Lyrics & Quote
Have patience; wait; but do not sit idle. Work while you are waiting; smile when you are wearied with monotony; be firm while everything around you is being shaken. Be joyous while the ugly face of despair grins at you […] Continue your journey to the end. The bright day is coming.
Abdu’l-Baha
Chords
Intro: Am Hm7 Cmaj7
Am7 Hm7
Have patience;
Am7 G
wait; but do not sit idle.
Em7 A
Work while you are waiting;
Am7 Hm7 Esus4 E
smile when you are wearied with monotony;
Am7 D G
Continue your journey to the end.
Eb F G
The bright day is coming. The bright day is coming.
Am7 D Em7
Continue your journey to the end.
Eb F G
The bright day is coming. The bright day is coming.
Am7 Hm7
Be firm
Am7 G
while everything around you is being shaken;
Em7 A
Be joyous
Am7 Hm7 Esus4 E
while the ugly face of despair grins at you.
Continue your journey to the end…
Eb F G
The bright day is coming...
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In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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