"It’s great to share your beliefs, practice, and faith with others. But too many Quakers spend a lot of time talking to other Quakers about what it means to be Quaker. (Feel free to read that sentence again.) We can’t continue to worship the institution rather than the Spirit. When a person has a deeply personal relationship to God, and if she has found the Light within her, it spreads. People feel it. She (or he) has the capacity to inspire. I have grown very weary of hearing Quakers talk about the semantics of history and theology, or focusing on the “Quaker view” of the many problems in the world. We should be focusing more on Light instead of dark. Pessimism is easy. It’s harder (but much more rewarding) to spread the light, find the good, listen, create, be in tune with the universe. An intimate relationship with God does not manifest in dourness and solemnity, but in abundant joy."
~ Jana Llewellyn
More at http://firstdaypress.org/gods-weird-people/
Artwork from Bridget Farmer http://www.bridgetfarmerprintmaker.com/p/about-me.html
~ Jana Llewellyn
More at http://firstdaypress.org/gods-weird-people/
Artwork from Bridget Farmer http://www.bridgetfarmerprintmaker.com/p/about-me.html
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