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National Novel Writing Month: A Spiritual Approach

Idal (Justice), 14 Ilm (Knowledge) 177 B.E. - Wednesday, October 28, 2020

“The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.”

Author-Poet Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

I am a NaNoWriMo rebel
attempting to take a metaphorical leap
into the bottomless chasm
of dead dreams
and half-remembered
or forgotten ideas.

In my 2020 NaNoWriMo book--
Epistles From My Soul--
I contemplate the deep metaphysical questions
"about understanding existence and knowledge"1.

In Epistles From My Soul
I write about my spirit's journey of faith,
about its movement from Southern Baptist
to Baha'i.

“Thou seest me, O my God, detached from all save Thee and cleaving unto Thee. Guide me, then, in all mine affairs unto that which profiteth me for the glory of Thy Cause and the loftiness of the station of Thy loved ones.” Let him then reflect upon the matter and undertake whatever cometh to mind. This vehement opposition of the enemies will indeed give way to supreme prosperity."

Bahá’u’lláh23

Writing Epistles From My Soul
is a spiritual exercise
that must begin
and end
with prayer and meditation.

Footnotes
1  https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/metaphysical
2  Additional Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh
3  https://www.bahai.org/r/884624320