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Twelve Quakers and Faith
36 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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March 11, 2012
This was what I needed after several weeks of depression and existential angst: to stay home from Quaker Meeting (forgot the time change and slept through it) and instead read about faith while sitting in the sun on the front steps. Tapioca and pajamas purely optional, though my neighbors no doubt appreciated the latter.
We don't talk much about faith in Quakerism (well, we don't talk much, period, which is kind of the point), because it is hard to talk about faith in a religion where there is no creed. It's a highly personal thing for Quakers. But sometimes I yearn for an open expression of what's going on beneath the surface of the silence of Meeting.
Quaker 12 was my favorite, but all the rest were a close second.
"St Julian of Norwich was optimistic in her faith, 'All will be well and all manner of things will be well and thou shalt see for thine own self that all is well.' I note that she does not say that it will be as we want it to be, but that it will be well."
"First, last and always people matter -- all of them. People are contrary, infuriating and very, very silly but every single one matters -- including me. For me, like most Quakers, there is that of God in everyone, therefore there is that of God in me. If that is so, in the same way as I am responsible for my words and actions, I am responsible both to God and for God -- alarmingly, I am God, so are you, so are we."
For all that I've wanted to hear people talk about faith, I'm experiencing a marked reluctance to go to Spiritual Exploration tonight and talk about this. I kind of just want to let it settle back into the silence of Quaker Meeting.
We don't talk much about faith in Quakerism (well, we don't talk much, period, which is kind of the point), because it is hard to talk about faith in a religion where there is no creed. It's a highly personal thing for Quakers. But sometimes I yearn for an open expression of what's going on beneath the surface of the silence of Meeting.
Quaker 12 was my favorite, but all the rest were a close second.
"St Julian of Norwich was optimistic in her faith, 'All will be well and all manner of things will be well and thou shalt see for thine own self that all is well.' I note that she does not say that it will be as we want it to be, but that it will be well."
"First, last and always people matter -- all of them. People are contrary, infuriating and very, very silly but every single one matters -- including me. For me, like most Quakers, there is that of God in everyone, therefore there is that of God in me. If that is so, in the same way as I am responsible for my words and actions, I am responsible both to God and for God -- alarmingly, I am God, so are you, so are we."
For all that I've wanted to hear people talk about faith, I'm experiencing a marked reluctance to go to Spiritual Exploration tonight and talk about this. I kind of just want to let it settle back into the silence of Quaker Meeting.
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