Diary of 2012 Summer Trip (5)

07-23-2012

I visited the Baha’i Garden in Haifa and prayed in the Shrine of The Bab today.

To say the Garden is beautiful does not do justice about the Garden. It’s beautiful beyond description (my description at least). 

Beautiful is only part of the characteristics of the Garden and the Shrine, important as it is, it’s not the essence of it. It is like a lamp, the beautiful design of its outward structure is not the essence of the lamp. It is the light that shines through the lamp which makes the lamp luminous and truly beautiful. The same is true about the Baha’i Gardens. Here in Israel, the land is basically desert or semi-desert, some spotted greenery, but mainly yellowish outlook, especially in hot summer sun. And yet out of this desert there appears the most wonderful, the most green and the most shining Garden on the ancient Mount Carmel. When walking on the terraces, a water stream follows every step I took, the sound of which is like a music that makes my walk a dance. Everywhere I look, I can see and feel the spirit shines through every leaf, every flower, every physical structure and every human face. There is inner happiness reflecting from all of them. It is, after all, the symbol and the beginning of the reality of The Kingdom of God on earth as promised ages ago.