Ways of Peace ~ Daniel O. Snyder

"Our Quaker practice of deep inward listening will call some of us first to the love of neighbor. The path then often consists in becoming overwhelmed with the enormity of that call, an encounter with our own deep inadequacies and a discovery of our great need for God to teach us the ways of peace, indeed to do the loving within us and through us. For others, the call will be first to the love of God, and then the path consists in an encounter with the Divine Disturber of our souls who will give us no peace until we conform our outward lives to the Inward Witness. The activist in me hears the Voice of God saying, “If you want to love them, love Me.” The mystic in me hears God saying, “If you want to love Me, love them.”"

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