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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, May 7, 2020

May 7, 2020

Scripture: Colossians 3:18–22

“Following Jesus is more than a private matter, it is a way of living the whole world should see.” –Katharine E. Matchette, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How does the way you live your life demonstrate Jesus’ nature?


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Stop claiming saintliness and wisdom,

and things will go better for everyone.

Stop boasting of kindness and goodness,

and you’ll discover authentic love.

If none sought power and wealth,

we would be free of greed and violence.

Instead:

drop pretense;

be simple,

single-minded

self.

–Jim Teeters, in Because of This

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