Write Week Update

Jamal (Beauty), 16 Sultan 164 B.E. - 16 Sultan (Sovereignty), 164 B.E. - Sunday, February 3, 2008 about 10:41 AM PST

Title: The Light of the World
Genre: Personal Essay
Theme: Spiritual
Word Count Goal: 5,000 words
Daily Word Count Goal: 714 words
Words Written up to today: 2,410
Quotes used so far as prompts to get the writing started: 2

“I will make you as a light for the nations, that my salvation may reach the end of the earth.” Isaiah 49:6 ESV

“The spiritual light of the world has risen again from the eastern horizon.” (Abdu'l-Baha, Divine Philosophy, p. 80)

Notes: So far I have two sections to this essay. I use the quotes to get me started them write as much as possible. This essay is going to need rewriting, but that is alright. I have learned a great deal about the way I think and why I do things in only the first section of this essay. I chose to do prompts because I din not know how to start the essay and had no idea concerning the subject.

A Rainy Morning

Jamal (Beauty), 9 Sultan (Sovereignty), 164 B.E. - Sunday, January 27, 2008 about 3:20 PM PST

There is something spiritual about a rainy morning. You wake up, look out the window, and see water laying on the ground. Rain refreshes the world, in a similar way prayer refreshes the soul. Prayer waters the garden of the spirit just as rainwater nature's garden.

After a shower the city seems clean, the dust of the day before washed away. The sky looks bright even when there are clouds. After prayer, the human spirit is clean of previous worries and fears. The spirit is joyous, happy and can see beauty in the world around it. The city refreshed for the rest of the day after a morning rain just as the soul remains joyous after prayers.