Carol's Meeting for Learning on 6/25 covered all Quaker testimonies - known among Quakers as the SPICES - but put the spotlight on the I testimony of Integrity. She likened the testimonies as stones brought home from a trip, to be held and considered.

She invited Friends to share how the Integrity testimony has spoken to them. 

Several Friends spoke of this testimony as a foundation useful in withstanding storms - something including but perhaps more than honesty, fairness, authenticity, consistency, congruity, wholeness, and accountability.

It was good to hear the speech of Mark, who is currently in rehab following a stroke but was able to attend through Zoom.

One Friend offered the following passage:

Be still and cool in thy own mind and spirit from thy own thoughts, and then thou wilt feel the principle of God to turn thy mind to the Lord God, whereby thou wilt receive his strength and power from whence life comes, to allay all tempests, against blusterings and storms. That is it which moulds up into patience, into innocency, into soberness, into stillness, into stayedness, into quietness, up to God, with his power.

George Fox, 1658