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Person Who Made the Biggest Impact on My Life

Istiqlál (Independence ), 9 Mashíyyat (Will) 175 B.E. - Friday, October 5, 2018

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Prompt: Write about the person that has had the biggest impact on your life.

Who has made the biggest impact on my life? At 71 years young, there are a lot of people who made a impact on my life. Some for the better and some for the worst; however, I'm not going to discuss those who have made a negative impact on my life. The reason for this is that, in a few weeks (December 24) there will be 72 candles on my birthday cake. I'm attempting to let go of the residual negative emotions that have built up from encounters with people.

Who are the people who have had a positive impact on my life? The list is still too long to mention here. Therefore, I will write about the one person who has had the most impact on my spiritual life. That individual is Baha'u'llah, because without the prayer and scriptures He revealed I don't think life would be worth living, especially in the years since my mother's death.

After Mom died, I kept pushing on. I didn't say much about how lost I felt. I said prayers. I read the sacred scriptures. I went to grief counseling. I wrote poem about Mom and the disease that stole her memory. The only ones who knew how I felt was Baha'u'llah and God, because I couldn't hide anything from the Creator or the Divine Manifestation.

Mom died on November 29, 2012. I didn't get out of the house on Bracken Avenue, which Mom and I shared, until early in 2014. During the entire thirteen or fourteen months I lived in the house, I felt as if I was walking through a fog. If it weren't for the prayers revealed by Baha'u'llah, I'm not sure I would have survived at all.

I did survive, and now I'm working on maintaining my health or attempting to improve it. Because of the prayers revealed by Baha'u'llah, I no longer worry as much as I used to. When I do worry the episode is short lived because I say a prayer and put things in Baha'u'llah's hands.