Insights from this
prayer by ‘Abdu’l-Baha
- Acknowledging our human condition on the plane of servitude:
- “feeble servants”
- “loyal bondsmen”
- “handmaidens”
- “bowed… down before… [God’] exalted Utterance”
- “humbled… at…[God’s] Threshold of light”
- “borne witness to… [God’s] oneness”
- “listened to the summons… [God] didst raise from out Thy hidden Realm”
- “responded to… [God’s] call” “with hearts quivering with love and rapture”
- Things for which we need to ask God for help:
- To “shower upon… [us] all the outpourings of… [His] mercy”
- To “rain down upon… [us] all the waters of… [His] grace”
- To “grow as beauteous plants in the garden of heaven”
- Other metaphors:
- God’s “full and brimming clouds of…bestowals”
- God’s “deep pools of… abounding grace”
- God’s “garden of heaven”
- We pray to God to keep this “garden of heaven” “to flower and keep it ever green and lustrous, ever fresh and shimmering and fair.”
