Openings, leadings, discernment, nudges, hints, promptings - ah...the words we use to describe the subtle voice of God. The motions of love, perceptions from the deep, the hunger of the heart, being prayed through - ah...the words we use to...
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March 26, 2008 Monthly Meeting for Business. Meeting agreed to maintain the current bimonthly contribution to Yearly Meeting at $410. Ministry and Counsel: the Committee will bring a draft of State of Society report to April Monthly Meeting for approval....
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We Hold in the Light: Sharon Wypych as she goes through radiation for extensive cancer. Vernah Toothaker, who was sent to St. Luke's for congestive heart failure....
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Friends Who Received Easter Flowers: Betsy Acheson; Jean Parsons; Jeanne Bird; Emelda Waite; Vernah Toothaker; Alice Macomber; Betty Amaral; Tilly Jackson; Marjorie Macomber; Gus Gonet....
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In the Quaker practice of group worship on the basis of silence come special times when an electric hush and solemnity and depth of power steals over the worshippers. A blanket of divine covering comes over the room, and a...
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From the beginning equality has been an important social testimony of Friends. In the seventeenth century they were ahead of their time in recognizing the rights and gifts of women in the affairs of the church, school and home. They...
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