On Consider the Wind: Remembering Baha'i Feast under the Twin Trees of Jefferson Park
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by jenyum
on 11/16/2010 @ 9:49amFrom a Facebook Friend:
"3 trees down in Jefferson park. One is broke at the ground, the other two pulled up at the roots."
Our son's home in Port Orchard is still without power since a wind storm on Monday, the same one that had me staying overnight at my office in Bremerton. There are a lot of trees in Kitsap County. Some 57 homes were hit by falling trees during the storm, but it was the impact fallen limbs had on power lines that had the greatest effect, with tens of thousands of residents all over the county suffering the same fate as my son Ruhullah and his family.
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Monday's storm was not the first to come through the area. It was just last week that a storm knocked out power here in the city. It stopped the presses at Tacoma's News Tribune. It also brought down precious trees in Jefferson Park, under which we have hosted Baha'i Feasts in years past. Here is Tacoma Joe's pencil drawing of the Twin Trees followed by a bit of the Tribune's coverage.
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And here is what our last Feast at the Twin Trees was like on a day in August. Please note that it was cold and ... windy. -gw
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Be unrestrained as the wind, while carrying the Message of Him Who hath caused the Dawn of Divine Guidance to break. Consider, how the wind, faithful to that which God hath ordained, bloweth upon all the regions of the earth, be they inhabited or desolate. Neither the sight of desolation, nor the evidences of prosperity, can either pain or please it. It bloweth in every direction, as bidden by its Creator. So should be every one that claimeth to be a lover of the one true God. It behoveth him to fix his gaze upon the fundamentals of His Faith, and to labor diligently for its propagation. Wholly for the sake of God he should proclaim His Message, and with that same spirit accept whatever response his words may evoke in his hearer. He who shall accept and believe, shall receive his reward; and he who shall turn away, shall receive none other than his own punishment.
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