Seventy and Two: Musings on Meaning

Over the past few months I have once again fallen into the trap of lazy-blogging at my blog mynahbird.wordpress.com. A lack of focus there – lacking a mission for the blog and a direction in which to aim my posts- combined with a recent post by Jonah on the lack of solid Bahá’í Apologetics in the blogosphere has led me to create this new blog with a direct and simple mission.

Mission

To present and defend Bahá’í views on topics with quotations from sacred writings and practical applications. To investigate the action of the Bahá’í Community in relation to those views. To counter misinformation, misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the Bahá’í Faith in the blogosphere.While most posts will be apologetic in nature, some will deal with issues I have observed within the Bahá’í Community (Good and bad.), my personal struggle to uphold the values my Faith holds dear, interfaith and pluralistic learning of my own, and perhaps a few other issues.

Disclaimer and Struggle

One of the things I struggle with as a blogger is hypocrisy, not other people’s hypocrisy, but my own. Bahá’u'lláh says:

Beware, O people of Baha, lest ye walk in the ways of them whose words differ from their deeds.    

As much as I believe in these words, I struggle to embody them, and I am the first to admit I am not an exemplary Bahá’í. Many of the virtues and teaching I will talk about on this blog are things I myself struggle with; in the past this has made me feel hypocritical and guilty, and to avoid this I am going to take a more personal stance at times. I will be brutally honest when my words differ from my deeds and try to use myself to make a point about what I know of the writings of my beloved. I must make it clear that though I may explain why, from the Bahá’í viewpoint, chastity and honesty are fundamental to nearness to God, I am in no way the exemplar of these teachings. That would be The Master.God Bless,
Gerald