Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Just a week ago, my father-in-law David Lewis’s funeral took place. He had been an NCO and sapper during the Second World War, spending time in North Africa and Italy. After the war he married, had two children, worked as an architect for Glamorgan County Council and subsequently for Hampshire County Council and lived an [...]
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The place in the citadel in Akka, Israel, where Baha’u’llah’s son, Mirza Mihdi, known as the Purest Branch, fell through a skylight to his death whilst meditating on the flat roof of the prison. Baha’u’llah granted his wish that his death would open the prison doors for the Baha’i pilgrims who otherwise trudged all the [...]
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My very good friend Pete Hulme has just started a brand new blog:
Everybody Means Something
Pete explains:
Ten years as a teacher of literature, thirty years as a psychologist and twenty-six years as a Bahá’í (not consecutively! I’m only 65.) have been part of a journey where I have been learning to use books and writing as [...]
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‘Abdu’l-Baha
This very sweet tale was sent to me by my good friend Jack McLean, Baha’i poet and scholar in Canada, who received it indirectly from a Phil Christensen, a Baha’i in South Africa. Jack, to whom I’m most grateful, introduces the story.
It is well worth reading. I have recast the introduction but not the story [...]
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I’m ashamed of myself. I failed to post on Blog Action Day!
Now, I’m sure that the absence of a post by me on any day of the year about eliminating poverty isn’t going to make a whole heap of a difference to the world’s poor. But I had made a commitment and I should have [...]
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Yes, there are those who think that the dedicated souls who minister to the spiritual needs of hospital patients are chaplins.
But those of us who attended the excellent training weekend at the Liverpool Bahá’í Centre for Bahá’ís aspiring to serve as healthcare chaplains now know for sure that chaplains are far from being “right Charlies”.
I’m [...]
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I was deeply touched to receive the “I Love Your Blog” Award from one of my favourite fellow bloggers, Tess of Anchors and Masts. Tess’s writing combines spirituality, art, and wisdom – amongst other things – and I am honoured to be one of her awardees (is there such a word?).
The great joy of [...]
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Visit Soul Talk
I’ve just joined this excellent place on the web called Soul Talk. It’s a place to explore concepts of spiritual import.
Soul Talk’s aim?
Welcome to Soul Talk. Our aim is to bring souls together to engage in conversations on topics of spiritual import in an atmosphere of love and humility, and using “…an [...]
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Heavy evening traffic slows our progress towards New Southgate and the grave of Shoghi Effendi. By 8.20 p.m., when the three of us in the Secretary’s car arrive outside the green custodian’s hut, the other six have already gathered in the enclosure around the familiar eagle-topped marble column.
This is the time for prayers in this [...]
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Today has been the Bahá’í Holy Day known as the Declaration of the Báb. It marks the very beginning of the Bahá’í Faith in the Iranian city of Shiraz in 1844.
My great treat for the day was a trip to Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s historic residence in London, to take part in a [...]
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