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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.

Photo by Eric Muhr

Photo by Eric Muhr

Friday, July 24, 2020

July 24, 2020

Scripture: 2 Timothy 1:1–7

“Many people can attest to experiencing a flame of faith lit by an extraordinary experience that has been spiritually lifechanging.” –Curt Ankeny, Fruit of the Vine

Query: What are you doing to fan the flame of faith?


Prune Hill rising

on my left, changing by season

underneath constant heartbeat

deep evergreen, surprised

not at all each fall, flaming yellow

stark against charcoal clouds,

mustard turns jade by December

chartreuse each May

bright gasp of spring blooms

then June: bride, undressed

white petals pool, silken

roots embraced

–Joann Renee Boswell, from “Veiled Transdimensional Inlet” in Cosmic Pockets

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