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This Day: Visit us each day for a contemplative experience – an image, a Scripture reading, a quotation from Fruit of the Vine, a query, and a poem-prayer. On Saturday each week, we will feature an excerpted Quaker testimony. On Sunday each week, we will offer a Scripture reading, historic Quaker quotation, questions for consideration, and a personal essay from the Illuminate lesson for that week.

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Thursday, April 2, 2020

April 2, 2020

Scripture: John 11:1–7, 38–43

“Recently, a friend and I were struggling with the why and why not of seemingly unanswered prayers of many years. What good purposes might God have in continuing to leave some people in illness and pain while healing others?” –Charlett Smith, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How do you approach questions of suffering in your life and in the lives of people you love?


56

The wise one

doesn’t say much,

but when she does,

you want to hear.

The fool

can’t stop talking.

The wise one

has a Spirit of calmness.

She

is not strident,

confounded nor prideful.

She is both radiant

and earthly.

Seek her Source to

love your enemies,

remain calm in crisis,

walk with humility.

This way you will

live honorably,

store up eternal

treasure.

–Jim Teeters, Because of This

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