With great joy in
our hearts and high expectations, we come to this Ridvan [2001] season at a
change of time, when a new state of mind is evident among us all. Abroad in our
world community there is a heightened awareness of the value of process, the
necessity of planning and the virtue of systematic action in fostering growth
and in developing the human resources by which expansion can be sustained and
consolidation assured. The coherence of understanding about these prerequisites
of progress cannot be overvalued, nor can the importance of perpetuating them
through well-ordered training be overestimated. And so the arrival of our
community at such a moment of consciousness is an occasion of significance for
us. We are deeply grateful to the Blessed Beauty to be able to recognize and
acclaim it at the very beginning of the global enterprise being launched during
these festive days.
(The Universal House of Justice, Ridvan 158, 2001)
