Throughout these19 days, we are presenting words and ideas from three of the great scriptures of the human race. Together, they paint a picture of reality- our inner reality- that is different from the world we generally experience. Faith in these words is transformative. As we grow in our appreciation and confidence in the ideas they express, we grow in our ability to differentiate the “transient” from the “eternal” and to express that in our lives.  

When Jesus was at the well of Samaria, He told the woman “everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” He expressed the idea that humans were not meant to “live on bread alone” but on “every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”. 

Nearly two thousand years later, Baha’u’llah would use similar expressions to describe His Words, saying that they fed our souls like water and bread feed our bodies.  Continuing to meditate upon them is transformative, little by little, day by day.  

O My Servant! Abandon not for that which perisheth an everlasting dominion, and cast not away celestial sovereignty for a worldly desire. This is the river of everlasting life that hath flowed from the well-spring of the pen of the merciful; well is it with them that drink!