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This is the first collection of settings of Bahá’í Writings we recorded for community devotional singing. The songs are all set to passages we had never heard sung before. Songs 1 through 4, Lauded Art Thou, Magnified Be Thy Name, Purify Me, and No God is There but Thee are designed mainly for the beginning of a meeting (they are invocations). Songs 5 through 8, Adorn These Children, Let Us See The Light, This is The Day!, and Illumined by One Sun, could be sung sometime during a meeting. Songs 9 through 15, Day by Day, May All My Intentions, East and West Together, Boundless Love, Roses of One Garden, Let Us Then Trust, and Our Beloved Faith, are appropriate for the end of a meeting (they are benedictions) although there are no hard and fast rules. All are based on the words of Bahá’u’lláh, The Báb, or ‘Abdu'l-Bahá, except for Our Beloved Faith. This setting of words of Shoghi Effendi should not be included in the spiritual portion of the Feast but would be fine at the end of the business portion or at devotionals and especially cluster meetings. As all these songs are sung again and again, they become part of us. The words express many of the most sublime thoughts and ideals found in the Bahá’í writings and should help us all feel a sense of reverence and appreciation for the guidance we have been given by God. They also have musical diversity having been written in various cultural styles. The first five songs are prayers.

Ron Lyles and I recorded the songs intending that they sound like a small group of friends singing together, so you are cordially invited to join right in with us! Wendy Scott (2009)