One day after a meeting when, as usual, many people had
crowded round Him, 'Abdu'l-Bahá arrived home very tired. We were sad at heart
that He should be so fatigued, and bewailed the many steps to be ascended to
the flat. Suddenly, to our amazement, the Master ran up the stairs to the top
very quickly without stopping.
He looked down at us as we walked up after Him, saying with
a bright smile, from which all traces of fatigue had vanished:
"You are all very old! I am very young!"
Seeing me full of wonder, 'Abdu'l-Bahá said: "Through
the power of Bahá'u'lláh all things can be done. I have just used that
power."
That was the only time we had ever seen Him use that power
for Himself, and I feel that He did so then to cheer and comfort us, as we were
really sad concerning His fatigue.
Might it not also have been to show us an example of the
great Reserve of Divine Force always available for those of us who are working
in various ways in the "Path of the Love of God and of Mankind." A celestial
strength which reinforces us when our human strength fails.
- Lady
Blomfield (‘The Chosen Highway’)
