about nineteen days

nineteen days started in 2008 as a collaborative project between friends and fellow bloggers amy and leila .

We are both members of the Bahá’í Faith—a world religion that has as its fundamental purpose the unification of all the peoples of the world. You can learn more about the Bahá’í Faith here.

As Bahá’ís we are enjoined to fast from sunrise to sunset for nineteen days, from March 2nd to March 20th.

It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and purpose are, therefore, fundamentally spiritual in character.

–Shoghi Effendi —

Now in its second year, nineteen days is a way to share with each other and all of you moments of our early mornings and early evenings for the nineteen days of  the Bahá’í Fast. We will be waking up before dawn to have breakfast, pray and prepare for the day. We will be sitting down at sunset to break the fast, pray and reflect on the day. Both of us will also include inspirational passages from the Bahá’í Sacred Writings in our daily postings and, at times, our own personal thoughts.

This year we will be adding a third dimension to the project – every day we have invited a different Bahá’í photographer from around the world to join us in sharing his/her fasting experience and photographs with all of us.

You can read all about our guest photographers here.

We are so glad to have you here, and we’d love to hear from you – so don’t hesitate to leave a comment!