Last week, a reader wrote to me and asked me to address the following question in an entry on my blog: "Could you write something in your blog about your best hopes and wishes for Baha'u'llah's purposes, and for the Baha'i Faith?"

I was a little stumped by the question; I realise that, with the Baha'i community in a state of fervent loss, I have let go of hopes and wishes for the future of the faith. The community has long since let go of the path set before it by Baha'u'llah's purposes - just as Islam was off the rails only a matter of a generation after its prophet's death. An excellent statement illustrating the straitened tide that now washes up on the shore of community thought appears on Jim's blog, A Wayfarer's Tales, where he quotes someone as saying: "I don't care what Baha'u'llah said. I only care what the House of Justice says He said." So I no longer think in terms of hopes and wishes for the future of the faith and community; instead, my focus is on making the most of the future that still lies before it. For, although all is lost, nothing is lost in the grace of God. And this even more today, when all things have been cleansed and forgiven by God even before the words of renewal and forgiveness were uttered by Baha'u'llah:

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