I love the yuletide holiday season best of all. It’s longer than any other and celebrated by more people than any other although for different reasons. Also in spite of its over commercialization, holiday parties and different religious connotations (or lack of), it incorporates a magical, mythical charm that draws more family, friends and strangers closer in a mutual bond of love and fellowship than any other, allowing all to freely get caught up in childish wonder imagination and awe-a refreshing escape, no matter how temporary, from the daily grind of the rest of the year’s realities.
In the Baha’i Writings we find: “Among the greatest of all services that can possibly be rendered by man to Almighty God is the education and training of children…”
With much emphasis on children–mostly centered around the Christ Child’s birth–the entire earth is made more peaceful and spiritual through the influence of music and magic that inevitably elevate mind and morals enabling some to “go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there is in silence” as begins the immortal Desiderata.
This unique holiday season weaves an aura of tranquility unlike any other if one but allows it to penetrate life’s harsher realities.
Also we read in the Baha’I Holy Writings, “The greatest bestowal in the world of existence is a tranquil heart. And it is impossible to obtain a tranquil heart “save through the good pleasure of the Lord. That is man must so adorn the temple of his being with lofty attributes and philanthropic deeds as to be pleasing at the threshold of the almighty. This is the only path and there is no other path. Let all your thoughts, your ideals, your aims and purposes revolve day and night around one common object–that is to live in accord with the good pleasures of the Lord… When a person attains to this station he is contented and peaceful. This station is joy succeeded by joy, confidence after confidence and Paradise after Paradise. Having reached this exalted station, man lives in Paradise while upon this earth, is in Paradise when he leaves this world. His heart is in Paradise, his spirit is in Paradise and he is encircled by Paradise.” In the tranquility of the Yuletide atmosphere induced by more celestial and uplifting music of the season one can go more placidly amid the incomparable noise and hast of modern day society and remember what peace there is in silence–through which most true knowledge is revealed as with those rare individuals in whose presence silence speaks.
~Happy Holiday Season~
