Check out this really cool multimedia presentation prepared to celebrate the Birth of Baha'u'llah

http://www.nybahai.org/bahaullah/birthofbahaullah.html

(great photos and great music from the Baha'i Gospel Choir)

O SON OF MY HANDMAID! Be not troubled in poverty nor confident in riches, for poverty is followed by riches, and riches are followed by poverty. Yet to be poor in all save God is a wondrous gift, belittle not the value thereof, for in the end it will make thee rich in God, and thus thou shalt know the meaning of the utterance, "In truth ye are the poor," and the holy words, "God is the all-possessing," shall even as the true morn break forth gloriously resplendent upon the horizon of the lover's heart, and abide secure on the throne of wealth".... Hidden Words, Baha'ullah

Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, was born on November 12, 1817 and Baha'is all around the world celebrate this day.

There are many interesting stories of his life and of his childhood. The one I like is about a dream that Bahá'u'lláh related to His father. In His dream, He was in a garden while huge birds attacked him on all sides. Yet the birds were unable to harm Him. He then went to sea, where He was attacked by birds and fish, but again wasn't harmed. His father summoned a famous seer to interpret the dream, and was told that His son would become the founder of a great Cause and would be attacked by the leaders and learned men of the world. But they would be unable to harm Him, and He would be victorious over them all.

Born into a noble family, he declined the ministerial career open to Him in government, and chose instead to devote His energies to a range of philanthropies which had, by the early 1840s, earned Him widespread renown as “Father of the Poor.”