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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

Tuesday, July 7, 2020

July 7, 2020

Scripture: Luke 4:1–19

“When we fail to find meaning in and for our life, it is a most miserable feeling, and we call it boredom. Why? Because we were created for God, and we never find completeness apart from fellowship with God.” –Fruit of the Vine

Query: What do you typically turn to when you are bored, even in the middle of busyness?


For Claire at 99

At 99 you are ageless,

you have moved into no-time,

older than the moon,

younger than sunshine.

Agelessness has set in like a halo.

You are, even now, a relic

from the sea of life.

You ready yourself for exploration of

a longed-for land

and cast anchor on a shore the

young know nothing of.

–Carol Bialock, Coral Castles

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