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When was the last time you did something good?
Hopefully the question doesn’t tax your recall – it certainly tests my memory sometimes. Seriously, most of us can remember doing something recently that we think of as good. You may have fixed someone a meal, helped a child, worked hard to gain mastery over your art or your profession, assisted a homeless stranger or kissed someone you love.
Let’s think about what compelled you to act the way you did – was it instinct, or training, or the desire to be a good person? Did your action come from your inner sense of right and wrong? Did it have to do with your idea of who you are, or what you’d like to become? How did your good action mak
David Langness writes and edits for BahaiTeachings.org and is a journalist and literary critic for Paste Magazine. He and his wife Teresa live in the Sierra foothills in Northern California.
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![Be thou not unhappy; the tempest of sorrow shall pass; regret will not last; disappointment will vanish; the fire of the love of God will become enkindled, and the thorns and briars of sadness and despondency will be consumed! Be thou happy; rest thou assured upon the favors of ...[God], so that uncertainty and hesitation may become non-existent and the invisible outpourings descend upon the arena of being! – ‘Abdu’l-Bahá #Bahai #Hope #LoveofGod
(Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá v3, p. 557)](https://media.bahaiteachings.org/sb-instagram-feed-images/869628224_18641208817023335_6402858368323445478_n__v284x284__crop_upscale.jpeg)
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