As I look at a blank page I am at a loss as to what I can say about this commemoration that would be of any signifigance, yet I want to say something to mark the occasion.

It seems to me that the events that unfolded on that day bear testament to the fact that, if God has a purpose for someone, and if it is His Will this purpose be fulfilled, men cannot prevent this from happening. This is even if they are seemingly exercising their will, in unison, and they have weapons and outnumber...

I have often heard well meaning people, of a firm religious persuasion, trying to be inclusive, suggest that people who did not share their faith should pray to their own God. This makes me feel that the point that "God is One" has rather been missed.

Believing in One God, you may think that there is no question of who should be prayed to. I have been thinking about this. I often look at the similarities in religions and noted that, for example, many of a Christian persuasion...

There is a saying "be careful what you pray for, it may just come true!" I agree with this saying, not that I believe that I can send a shopping list of wants to God and then get them all provided in some way or another. I don't, and the quotation at the end of my expression of opinion, I think, explains why.

I am not so puritanical that I think that is wrong to ask God for anything, but experience has lead me to the conclusion that I should have the maturity to think...

I have decided to focus on prayer for a few entries.

I was brought up in a tollerent but not religious home. I was not aware of any of my family members praying, ever. I don't remember why, whether it was that I heard about prayer from friends or at school or on the radio, or in books but I remember praying when I was about 5 or 6. It seemed so important to me, and a natural thing to do.

This is something that I do as a matter of course, sometimes finding it...

Having just logged on and read about the letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá'ís in Iran I was thinking of them.

I think that the message was beautiful. I pray for their strength and hope and happiness.

I wonder if I will ever get to visit the Bahá'í Holy places in a peaceful Iran.

I remember how, in History we read of various religious crusades and how bloody they were. Maybe they were of a time.

I think about...