7-22-2012
I am waiting at Prague airport to check in and fly to Tel
Aviv and then to Haifa.
Life is such a mystery unfolding each day and we don’t know
for sure to where it will lead us. It never stops amazing me that I and my whole
family would one day come to visit the Holy Land as pilgrims. Growing up in
China as atheist, finding God that is believable to me via a Muslim classmate
in Prague, then in Rolla Missouri joining Christian church and finally finding
my heart desire in Baha’i Faith, the journey traversed half the world and involved
more than 15 years of search. We had many aspirations and expectations from
life when we were young, many (almost all) proved to be, if not false, at least
misperceptions about ourselves and about life. One thing we realized as life
proceeding, it is in relation to God that the value of all things is evaluated
and determined. At the end of 2007, our whole family came to Haifa Israel as
pilgrims for the first time, also the last time as family, which was, in my
opinion, our consummate achievement we, as a family, could ever attain.
7-22-2012 evening
I landed in Tel Aviv this afternoon and took sherut
to Haifa this evening. The street (Ben Gurion) I am staying at is right in
front of Baha'i Garden on Mount Carmel. The Shrine of the Bab and the
terraces are luminous through dark background, which is true in both literal
and symbolic sense. It’s hard to believe I am here in this land again, onto
which so many historical stories happened and recorded, so many prophecies had
been made, so many hopes had been and still be placed and through which all
prophecies have been fulfilled, even though not been recognized by the still
sleepy populace yet.
This is the Holy and mystic Land.
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