"I am a Quaker. I am part of the worldwide Quaker community and I inhabit that knowledge daily. It helps me live the way I want to. The knowledge and reality of that community membership informs my life and gives me the strength I need to live faithfully, to speak truth to power, to witness in the world.
I feel different from those around me, and my faith impels me to live a different life from the one the secular world tells me. As I walk down the road, catch the bus, take the train, drive, eat, speak, or buy, I am not following societies norms, but those alternatives hewn out by Quakers over three and a half centuries of discerning what is called from us as people of God. I feel clothed in my faith."
~ Ben Pink Dandelion
More at http://www.pendlehill.org/lectures/fall2009/249-the-inward-supper
Artwork by Ron Waddams http://www.larrenart.org.uk/about_artist.htm
I feel different from those around me, and my faith impels me to live a different life from the one the secular world tells me. As I walk down the road, catch the bus, take the train, drive, eat, speak, or buy, I am not following societies norms, but those alternatives hewn out by Quakers over three and a half centuries of discerning what is called from us as people of God. I feel clothed in my faith."
~ Ben Pink Dandelion
More at http://www.pendlehill.org/lectures/fall2009/249-the-inward-supper
Artwork by Ron Waddams http://www.larrenart.org.uk/about_artist.htm
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