This post was originally posted as part of the Walking Through the Garden of Ridván series and is reprinted here with permission from the author, Chelsea Lee Smith. To help think about the meaning and importance of Ridván as the “King of Festivals,” as used in the selection below, our family made crowns. As to...

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April 25, 2015

Tapping into the Joy of Ridvan

by Leanna

This post was originally posted as part of the Walking Through the Garden of Ridván series and is reprinted here with permission from the author, Chelsea Lee Smith. Rejoice, with exceeding gladness, O people of Bahá!”, Bahá’u’lláh has written, “as ye call to remembrance the Day of supreme felicity, the Day whereon the Tongue of...

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April 21, 2015

Celebrating the Festival of Ridvan with Music

by Leanna

This post was originally posted as part of the Walking Through the Garden of Ridván series and is reprinted here with permission from the author, Chelsea Lee Smith. Ridván has come again and we are having fun celebrating each day with a little activity. As we have been doing for the past three years, each...

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April 17, 2014

Spring Banner and Lazy Salt Dough Roses {Ridvan}

by Leanna

The Festival of Ridván is approaching, and each year I try to make it special for my kids. This year, in addition to making a Ridván tent, I thought we should do some other decorations. Since Ridván commemorates the time that Bahá’u’lláh spent in the Ridván Gardens outside of Baghdad, I wanted to do something...

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May 2, 2013

Walking Through the Garden of Ridvan: A Look Back

by Leanna

It is hard to believe that as of sunset tonight (which has already happened in many places) Ridván will be over. I have had so much fun participating in the first ever Walking Through the Garden of Ridván series with Bahá’í Mom Blogs and getting ideas for how to celebrate this special holiday with my boys....

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April 28, 2013

Nightingales: Ridvan Craft and Sensory Play

by Leanna

“Consider these nightingales. So great is their love for these roses, that sleepless from dusk till dawn, they warble their melodies and commune with burning passion with the object of their adoration. How then can those who claim to be afire with the rose-like beauty of the Beloved chose to sleep?” – Bahá’u’lláh to His...

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April 21, 2013

Welcome to Our Walk Through the Ridvan Garden!

by Leanna

Happy Ridván! I am pleased to announce the beginning of a series from some of the women behind Bahá’í Mom Blogs, designed to tell the story of this festival and introduce some ideas for celebrating it with our little ones. We kick off this series with a post from Varya of Creative World of Varya,...

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