I am back in the blog world. it is so nice to be on vacation! but i miss the office and everyone there already! tomorrow i am going to work in bahji for half of the day and then i and amir will go to the Shrine together. and sunday-back to full time service again:) i have tonns of pictures from my mom's trip here, but i won't be able to post them until i am on my conputer in the office which is where i am not right now:) so, hopefuly, next week some stories and pictures from my beautiful mom's trip to the holy land.
meanwhile we just realized that we are here for another 6 weeks only, and then off we go to kazakhstan. strange mixed feeling of excitement and worrying how things will turn out for us there... asking for your prayers, friends, it is going to be a wonderful and probably with some tests transition:)
love you all,
till next week,
chao
4 comments:
Taha Joon, I didnt realise you are leaving already! I know you have all these worries about adjusting and getting settled, but you and amir will make it through! just stay united and pray for guidance as you start this new phase ...
take care,
sahar
Hey Tahmina! It's great to see all of these photos! And I can't believe that you leave in 6 weeks! Enjoy the rest of your time!
Dearest Taha & Amir, you two definitely will be missed. taha, we already miss you in the choir. we could feel a huge difference without you there.
you both take care. you will take our love with you no matter where you go.
love,
Franco & Patria
Dear Tahmina and Amir,
As you prepare to move out of the World Centre and into a brand new life together, let me share with you some small things you can do to make the final leg sweeter.
1. Relish the time! Smile and laugh a lot with each other as you pack, unpack, repack, clean, sweep, write, and do all those myriad tasks mandated for departing friends.
2. Go to the Consumer List and offer three of your most beloved material belongings FREE to the third, ninth, and last persons who will respond. Consumer lists never exist outside Haifa. Use it one last time to enrich the lives of others with three things that have gratified you.
3. Have fun throwing out garbage as you clean out your flat! If you take the staircase to get to the garbage bin, make a detour go to the nearest store and treat yourself to a bag of Israeli potato chips. No one in the world does potato chips the way Israelis do.
4. Write a mail to the five persons you have always wanted to have dinner with but never got to. Tell them you want to lunch with them at the erstwhile Twelve-Shekel Kebab Restaurant in Hadar on Wednesday. If no one shows up, lunch together anyway, and enjoy that one restaurant in Haifa that has magnetized and enhanced the fellowship of the youth of the World Centre through all these years.
5. Go to the CMD and Accommodations Department and personally thank each one of the crew that you find in the office. Show your appreciation for the fellow workers who make daily life in Haifa a much more pleasant experience.
6. On your second-to-the-last Saturday, volunteer to become a morning terrace tour guide and breathe in the air that our predecessors did. Then one evening in your final week, walk together down the terraces as the lights come up. End up at Ben Gurion; walk further down until you reach the final rotunda. Stop, turn around, and marvel at the glorious lights that celebrate the dawn of a new day.
7. Spend one lunch hour at the Monument Gardens. Reflect on the great, tranquil majesty and symbolism of these gardens. Say a prayer for the departed, and visit the Department of Holy Places to bid them goodbye.
8. Ride those final sherut rides to Bahji seated together in silence. Absorb the moment: you are on the path taken by countless pilgrims whose lives have changed after visiting Haifa. You are now about to join those blest ranks.
9. And as you visit the Shrines for the last time, dedicate your prayers to the House of Justice and the beloved institutions of our Faith for divine assurances of guidance and protection over the hard work that they do in ensuring the progress of the Cause in every corner of the world, including that corner in Kazakhstan that you will now be part of.
You have my fondest thoughts and wishes.
Love,
:: Paul A.
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