The Truth is Continuously Revealed When reflecting on the idea of truth, it occurs to me that, in my experience, people tend to define it as whatever they want it to be – whatever is convenient. The Truth for which we must strive is from the Spirit; it requires an openness to divine will, no …
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To Witness as God Wants
Photo by Belinda Fewings “There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.” –Howard Thurman Being ‘in the world but not of it’ is a path Friends have sought to walk for generations, and I’m not quite sure …
Walking Myself Back to Prayer in the Pandemic
“…for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, ‘Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.’” Ephesians 5:14 When the pandemic required folks to isolate, it seemed a given that spiritually bent people would dig in deeper with that enforced solitude, and I think, for some, that happened. What …
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Clothed in Service
“It is more fit for us, to be covered with God’s eternal Spirit, and clothed with his eternal Light which leads us, and guides us into righteousness, and to live righteously and justly and holy in this profane evil world. This is the clothing that God puts upon us, and likes, and will bless. This …
Being of Service
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.” “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” Anne Lamott …
Unholy Barnacles—Working Through It
I have a fair amount of thoughts about the idea of moving through pain to get to what’s next in terms of what the particular journey is, and to not only move forward, but to be altered by the suffering. In some instances, pain has the potential to break a person, but can also create …
Query: How does being comfortable in my own skin correspond to being available to God and others?
The following are Lisa and Jan’s respective responses to the above query: photo emmanuelphaeton For most of my life, I have been a person who had been limited regarding how much of my true self I could reveal. I lived in shadow until I was freed of the shackles that bound me in so many …
As Way Opens 