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O SON OF SPIRIT!

My first counsel is this: Possess a pure, kindly and radiant heart, that thine may be a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and everlasting.

-Baha'i Faith

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O SON OF MAN!

Veiled in My immemorial being and in the ancient eternity of My essence, I knew My love for thee; therefore I created thee, have engraved on thee Mine image and revealed to thee My beauty.

-Baha'i Faith

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O SON OF MAN!

I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.

-Baha'i Faith

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Interview with Author/Publisher, Justice St Rain

Justice St Rain has been designing, writing and publishing materials to serve the Bahá’í Community since the day he became a Bahá’í in 1974. He founded the company Special Ideas in 1981. Among his better known works are Falling Into Grace, Why Me?, My Bahá’í Faith, and The Secret of Happiness. He is also responsible for countless teaching materials and dozens of Bahá’í slogans, including “Uniting the World One Heart at a Time,” “No Room in My Heart for Prejudice” and “Celebrate Oneness.”

He is a graduate of Earlham College where he studied art, education and psychology. He has served on a dozen Bahá’í institutions in six states and has travel-taught in some thirty states. He currently lives with his wife and two children on a 60-acre farm in southern Indiana where they raise chickens, day lilies and blueberries.

BW: Reading Why Me? I came across many interesting topics. Let me start by asking what prompted you to write this book?

Interview with educator/author/poet Heather Cardin

Heather Cardin holds degrees in Arts and Education from the University of Saskatchewan and a Master’s degree in English from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She has published three books and has another forthcoming. She and her husband Bernie have settled in rural Saskatchewan, Canada after living for lengthy periods in British Columbia and Quebec. Their three children are now grown up.

First I’d like to thank you for agreeing to give this interview. Congratulations on the recent publication of Mind, Heart, & Spirit: Educators Speak, an interesting read. Let me start by asking what was the motivation to write this book?

Heather: You are more than welcome. Thank you for asking me! Honestly, for the book, I thought that in many societies, I hear teachers being blamed for a lot of the problems of the world, or the children’s problems, and my experience with working in several schools was that most of the teachers I knew were completely committed to excellence in their work. So I thought that to showcase some of that work would perhaps help the people who read the stories to see what excellent work most teachers were doing, often in very challenging conditions, and to counteract some of the teacher blame.

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Mind, Heart, and Spirit: Educators Speak by Heather Cardin

Mind, Heart, and Spirit: Educators Speak is a collection of real-life stories from a diverse group of educators on a wide range of issues such as how to deal with difficult students, the role or parents and religion in a child's education, and the similarities and differences in educating children in different cultures across the globe. Filled with interesting anecdotes and personal accounts, this is an intimate, sometimes frustrating, sometimes exhilarating insight into the experiences of all these educators as they have struggled to overcome various challenges in educating children. Their passion for teaching and their devotion to their students come shining through and offer a glimpse of the important role that Baha'i education - with its emphasis on unity, tolerance, and diversity - can play in shaping the lives of young people today.