Janet Hougham

Janet Hougham

Chimacum Woman

CHIMACUM WOMAN

Emma's Day Trip to Seattle

EMMA'S DAY TRIP TO SEATTLE

We left Bremerton on the Walla Walla around noon.

It was 15 year old Emma's first time on a boat.  She was excited as we disembarked.

Approaching Seattle

Mural on the stairway to Pike Place Market

Big Saturday afternoon crowd.

Emma and her Aunt Linda with Estrella, who told her fortune.

Standing on the glass floor atop the Space Needle.

Sailing from Seattle at the end of the day.

Big Sur

McWay Falls at sunset after a storm. 1969  -John Gamble

The Seat of the Universal House of Justice and
the Baha'i World Center, Mt. Carmel, Israel

Ocean Beach

OCEAN BEACH FROM THE CLIFF HOUSE -- STEPANIE SCHNEIDER

Ocean Beach, San Francisco

OCEAN BEACH - ZAC MARLIN

Ocean of My Words

THE world’s equilibrium hath been upset through the vibrating influence of this most great, this new World Order. Mankind’s ordered life hath been revolutionized through the agency of this unique, this wondrous System—the like of which mortal eyes have never witnessed.

Immerse yourselves in the ocean of My words, that ye may unravel its secrets, and discover all the pearls of wisdom that lie hid in its depths. Take heed that ye do not vacillate in your determination to embrace the truth of this Cause—a Cause through which the potentialities of the might of God have been revealed, and His sovereignty established. With faces beaming with joy, hasten ye unto Him. This is the changeless Faith of God, eternal in the past, eternal in the future. Let him that seeketh, attain it; and as to him that hath refused to seek it—verily, God is Self-Sufficient, above any need of His creatures.

Say: This is the infallible Balance which the Hand of God is holding, in which all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth are weighed, and their fate determined, if ye be of them that believe and recognize this truth. Say: Through it the poor have been enriched, the learned enlightened, and the seekers enabled to ascend unto the presence of God. Beware, lest ye make it a cause of dissension amongst you. Be ye as firmly settled as the immovable mountain in the Cause of your Lord, the Mighty, the Loving.

Baha'i World Center, Mt. Carmel, Israel

BAHA'I WORLD CENTER AND THE SHRINE OF THE BÁB

MOUNT CARMEL, ISRAEL

Consider the Pettiness of Men's Minds

"Consider the pettiness of men’s minds. They ask for that which injureth them, and cast away the thing that profiteth them. They are, indeed, of those that are far astray. We find some men desiring liberty, and priding themselves therein. Such men are in the depths of ignorance.

Liberty must, in the end, lead to sedition, whose flames none can quench. Thus warneth you He Who is the Reckoner, the All-Knowing. Know ye that the embodiment of liberty and its symbol is the animal. That which beseemeth man is submission unto such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance, and guard him against the harm of the mischief-maker. Liberty causeth man to overstep the bounds of propriety, and to infringe on the dignity of his station. It debaseth him to the level of extreme depravity and wickedness."

Regard men as a flock of sheep that need a shepherd for their protection. This, verily, is the truth, the certain truth. We approve of liberty in certain circumstances, and refuse to sanction it in others. We, verily, are the All-Knowing.

Say: True liberty consisteth in man’s submission unto My commandments, little as ye know it. Were men to observe that which We have sent down unto them from the Heaven of Revelation, they would, of a certainty, attain unto perfect liberty. Happy is the man that hath apprehended the Purpose of God in whatever He hath revealed from the Heaven of His Will, that pervadeth all created things. Say: The liberty that profiteth you is to be found nowhere except in complete servitude unto God, the Eternal Truth. Whoso hath tasted of its sweetness will refuse to barter it for all the dominion of earth and heaven."

Baha'u'llah  Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah

Stars and Strips Forever

STARS AND STRIPES FOREVER