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Kelly selected the following passage for meeting for worship on 5/28:
Faith is what allows us to live the full awareness of our contradictions, an awareness that breeds the humility that is part and parcel of true faith.
Parker Palmer
The passage shared at the May 7 meeting for worship was from the Shaker song Simple Gifts.
'Tis the gift to be simple,
’tis the gift to be free
'Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gained,
To bow and to bend we will not be ashamed,
At the 4/23 meeting for worship, co-clerk Kelly shared a passage from Carl Sagan:
The passage shared by Kelly to open meeting for worship was from George Fox:
"You will say Christ saith this, and the apostles say this, but what cannst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and has thou walked in the Light. and what speakest is it inwardly from God?"
The passage shared at meeting for worship with attention to business was from Parker Palmer:
“Friends are most in the Spirit when they stand at the crossing point of the inward and outward life. And that is the intersection at which we find community. Community is a place where the connections felt in the heart make themselves known in bonds between people, and where tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening up our hearts.”
The Co-clerks offered this query:
What am I doing to keep open my heart?
At the 2/19 meeting for learning, Stephanie led Memphis Friends in a conversation about spoken messages in Quaker worship. The conversation was interspersed with two QuakerSpeak videos on the topic - one featuring an introvert and another featuring an extrovert.
https://quakerspeak.com/video/when-to-speak-in-quaker-worship/
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