{"id":1814,"date":"2021-12-08T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pathwaystopeace.org\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-11-22T08:55:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T16:55:51","slug":"love-and-light-for-dear-avon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathwaystopeace.org\/love-and-light-for-dear-avon\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and Light for dear Avon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Avon, whom we all know and love, embodied grace, joy, and a full-hearted commitment to peacebuilding.\u00a0 I am grateful for her early encouragement, at age 12, to constructively engage in peace-building based on an understanding that peace &#8220;is not only possible but inevitable&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahai.org\/documents\/the-universal-house-of-justice\/promise-world-peace\">1<\/a> requiring the spiritual transformation of individuals and communities. Avon\u2019s pure soul no doubt will continue to inspire others as a \u201c<em>leaven that leaveneth the world of being, and furnisheth the power through which the arts and wonders of the world are made manifest.<\/em>\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahai.org\/beliefs\/life-spirit\/human-soul\/life-death#fn-3\">(Baha&#8217;u&#8217;llah<\/a>) We pray that she may \u201center the garden of happiness, [and be] cleanse[d] \u2026 with the most pure water\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahaiprayers.org\/depart4.htm\">2<\/a> as her soul advances in the world of light.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u201cPrayer for the Departed\u201d by The Humming Birds\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W9U2K7OhXXQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">~Shahla Maghzi-Ali<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Avon, whom we all know and love, embodied grace, joy, and a full-hearted commitment to peacebuilding.\u00a0 I am grateful for her early encouragement, at age 12, to constructively engage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pathwaystopeace.org\/love-and-light-for-dear-avon\/\" class=\"more-link style2-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avon-memories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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