It is been few years since I wrote. Looking at my last post with pictures in 2011 it
seems like yesterday in some way and in another way it seems like it is been a
life time. So much changed. We left the Baha'i World Center in Haifa about a
year ago and came back to the US. Our heart and soul is still connected
to Haifa and Akka. It was an amazing journey of 7 years. We came back with the
most people gift, our baby boy, Jeyden. He was born in Haifa and like an angel,
smile and bring so much love and joy to our family. He will be 4 years old in
October 17. It was so hard to leave the Holy Land, the people, the culture, the
mountains of Haifa and the wild life and calming view of the sea the safe
feeling of being close to the Shrines and the Holy places, the project we were
blessed to work on. Naim served with amazing people in the computer department.
I could have not been more blessed as few months after I arrived to the World
Center I meet Khosrow and his beautiful wife, who became my boss, my mentor and
truly guided me like a father. I worked on the Restoration of the Ridvan Garden
and was blessed to see it from the initial design to the final stage of testing
and operation for a year after the design. I worked on all the new project
around Bahji and the new properties developments. Also during the time the
Universal House of Justice establish the Water and Energy Conservation
committee that I was appointed to service as a member with four other talented,
smart and wonderful human beings. Just thinking that I wake up to get ready to
work on the holy places is truly a miracle that I watched the coming back to
life the river of the most beautiful Garden in the World as Baha'u'llah
referred to Ridvan Garden. As a guide I took some of the pilgrims to
visits the Archive. That I ended up doing interviews on TV, radio both for
local and the West Bank answering question both about our projects and the
Faith. Yet I felt so in adequate and unworthy every time I was asked to do any
of these tasks, but I was able to do it by just relying on God and feeling that
the Beloved Universal House of Justice was guiding me. Equal to all these
blessing we were giving tests and difficulties. But some how you learn to deal
with these one at a time and pray and pray. What actually made me start this
blog again today was that I had something really bad happened in my life you
know one of these days that you just feel like it is really hard to move on or
breath and hard to even pray. Yet not know knowing what to do I opened my email
to find a picture of the Shrine with the kind and simple words that in the body
of the email saying praying for you. I could not stop crying then walked to my
mail box to just get out so Jeyden does not see me cry found a large envelope
from a friend that serviced with me in Haifa and now in Canada with my favorite
nut candy no letter nothing just the candy. I sat cried and eat my candy and
looked at the picture of the Shrine and cried some more and now I feel so much
better. We really don’t know how little things we do can touch someone’s heart.
How connected we are as human being. How
amazing the power of love is.
