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The little boy had been filling his mouth and hands with sweets from the pantry late at night, when he realised he was observed. It was Baha'u'llah, right there where he was going! Baha'u'llah laughed, took one of the cakes from a nearby plate and, seeing that the boys sticky hands could not take it, gently balanced it on his head. He said, 'Eat well! Goodbye. And may God protect you'.

Sue Podger is descended from the early Dutch settlers of the Cape of Good Hope, known as Afrikaners. She is the first of this people to become a Baha'i and her maiden surname is Hofmeyr. She was trained at the Michaelis School of Fine Art in Cape Town. An accomplished watercolourist, she uses a range of styles to portray a sensitive and accurate picture of the years when Baha'u'llah was amongst us. The images of one set of her paintings shown on this website were painted for a hard cover book, 'The Incomparable Friend', a history of the life of Baha'u'llah told in stories, which sold out and was out of print for some years. Shirin Sabri, it's author, and Sue, wishing to see it more widely available, have published it as a free...