On E-Trends and B-Trends: Area Woman Visits Wilmette HOW

Area Woman of Area Woman Falls Prey to Narcissistic E-Trend visited the Baha'i House of Worship, posted a great close-up to it on her blog, and gave me permission to re-post it here. -gw

Lindsay, who alludes to being narcissist (but don't believe her), is an accomplished blogger who can show blogging newcomers a thing or two. Check out the bells and whistles and the breezy tone.

But Lindsay's real claim to fame, it can be argued, is that she, like Ginger, is a Teach for America teacher, working in Texas close to the Mexican border. Before doing that she hung out in places like Middlebury, Vermont, and St Petersberg, Russia, but she grew up in Northern Wisconsin, so she loves pine, she writes in her profile. (What are the chances she knew Ginger who grew up in Upper Peninsula, Michigan, and who loves trillium.)

Area Woman is a "something bordering on a universalist" Catholic, as she explains in comments to this post. From Wikipedia:

Universalists are those who believe God to be so loving that all will be reconciled to God. ...The doctrine can be traced to the earliest centuries of Church history, and was taught by both Origen and St. Gregory of Nyssa.

A loving God is the subject of this prayer by the Bab.

O God our Lord! Protect us through Thy grace from whatsoever may be repugnant unto Thee, and vouchsafe unto us that which well beseemeth Thee. Give us more out of Thy bounty, and bless us. Pardon us for the things we have done, and wash away our sins, and forgive us with Thy gracious forgiveness. Verily, Thou art the Most Exalted, the Self-Subsisting.

Thy loving providence hath encompassed all created things in the heavens and on the earth, and Thy forgiveness hath surpassed the whole creation. Thine is sovereignty; in Thy hand are the Kingdoms of Creation and Revelation; in Thy right hand Thou holdest all created things, and within Thy grasp are the assigned measures of forgiveness. Thou forgivest whomsoever among Thy servants Thou pleasest. Verily, Thou art the Ever-Forgiving, the All-Loving. Nothing whatsoever escapeth Thy knowledge, and naught is there which is hidden from Thee.

O God our Lord! Protect us through the potency of Thy might, enable us to enter Thy wondrous surging ocean, and grant us that which well befitteth Thee.

Thou art the Sovereign Ruler, the Mighty Doer, the Exalted, the All-Loving.

The Báb, "O God our Lord! Protect us through Thy grace...," Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá