Necklace of a King – Zac & Devina (5 Year Plan Festival, Brisbane, Australia)

In May 2021, Baha’is and like-minded friends from across Brisbane Bayside, Australia, gathered
together to take part in a Festival to Celebrate the Five Year Plan. It was an opportunity to
wholeheartedly celebrate the achievements of the cluster over the past five years, and to
form a unified vision of the One-Year Plan ahead. A year that is described by the Universal
House of Justice as one “for profound reflection on the life of Abdu’l-Baha and the strength
of the Covenant of which He was the Centre.” Songs and stories about Abdu’l-Baha were
performed throughout to inspire us to walk in His footsteps, and we are excited to now
share this collection of songs for us all to be able to revisit this year and beyond.

In this song called 'Necklace of a King', Zac and Devina share the following quote from a talk by Abdu'l-Baha:

"Affliction beat upon this captive like the heavy rains of spring, and the victories of
the malevolent swept down in a relentless flood, and still Abdu’l-Baha remained happy
and serene, and relied on the grace of the All-Merciful. That pain, that anguish, was a
paradise of all delights; those chains were the necklace of a king on a throne in heaven.
Content with God’s will, utterly resigned, my heart surrendered to whatever fate had in
store, I was happy. For a boon companion, I had great joy."
-Abdu'l-Baha

You can watch the entire playlist of songs from the '5 Year Plan Festival' here: https://bit.ly/3k38DJl

And you can also check out the songs from the previous conference called the 'Heroes Teaching Conference' here: https://bit.ly/2UqShRN

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