we had the first meeting with the junior youth yesterday, and it was great fun. we had some charades (nothing better than embarassing yourself in front of people you don't know) where we found some hidden talents, then had a nice talk about respect (I'll get to that), and finally danced some cumbia together. we agreed to try and meet every saturday, and also plan some sort of service project together. they're all going to think about something and then also some artistic thing they want to do. I think it's going to be really fun :)
as for respect, we started talking about it after the charades, since it was on one of the papers and smoothly came into it (well done, juan!). it turned out to be a very interesting discussion about what respect is, how we earn/deserve it, and also how we show it. many good things were said, but what I especially remember is that the amount of respect we give to a person is based on how highly we value that person. and how do we value a person?
the essential value that each person has, comes from our Creator:
O CHILDREN OF MEN!
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.
(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words, #68)
this of course means that we all have a basic value that is inherent in us from the day we are created. in addition to that, I think it has to do with how well we know a person. but then of course, we show it in different ways. I wouldn't greet my best friend the same way I do a prominent person, regardless of if I respect them equally as much!
as for respect, we started talking about it after the charades, since it was on one of the papers and smoothly came into it (well done, juan!). it turned out to be a very interesting discussion about what respect is, how we earn/deserve it, and also how we show it. many good things were said, but what I especially remember is that the amount of respect we give to a person is based on how highly we value that person. and how do we value a person?
the essential value that each person has, comes from our Creator:
O CHILDREN OF MEN!
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory.
(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words, #68)
this of course means that we all have a basic value that is inherent in us from the day we are created. in addition to that, I think it has to do with how well we know a person. but then of course, we show it in different ways. I wouldn't greet my best friend the same way I do a prominent person, regardless of if I respect them equally as much!
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