On another note

This one isn't directly family related (or maybe it is) but during this past Fasting period I was just musing... As Baha'is, we are asked to pray and read from the writings everyday. Recently, I have been thinking about the first sentence in the short obligatory prayer that I say every day. It says, " I bear witness Oh my God, that Thou hast created me to know Thee and to worship Thee. ..." I am testifying that my sole purpose is to know God and to worship God. I realized that I didn't know what that meant exactly even though I have said the prayer a gazillion times. I approached it like an engineer would of course creating a table with two columns with the headings: Know God and Worship God. And started to write down ideas as to what might describe doing each of these things. Here's what I ended up with... Here also I include a larger list of virtues I compiled a while back...