A year full of flowers
Though it included two personally painful experiences, and it felt like the world was collapsing in many ways, 2018 has been one of the happiest, most rewarding of my life. While God is certainly the Most Generous, and all good comes from Him, I have given some thought to why this year may have been so uniquely joyful even in the face of loss, regret, and unexpected change (unwelcome at the time). While I can't of course be certain, I can say one thing that was different in 2018 is that I prayed like I've never prayed before. One day in March, when I was visiting my dad in Puerto Rico, and experiencing 1 of the 2 lows, I was quietly thinking to myself that I needed to make a change. Something was off in my life and I wasn't sure what it was. I didn't mention this to my father. We were watching a tv show together, and he suddenly pressed pause, and out of the blue said, "You know, Nava, I remember once hearing that Collis Featherstone said if the Baha'is onl
