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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

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

August 12, 2020

Scripture: 1 John 4:7–8, 11

“We are daily being made whole by God’s love received, which turns into blessings to be shared as God’s hands and feet to others. God desires to provide for his children through his children!” –Roxane Risner, Fruit of the Vine

Query: What needs has God met for you today?


My part is witness and memory bearer.

I keep them in an old pottery jar,

the color of fresh earth washed with iron.

The meeting, the wedding, the babies, the aging parents,

the work, the babies, the trips,

they all fit inside.

Whenever one more rises, I lift the lid

and tuck it in where it is safe.

–Peg Edera, from “My Part Is Witness” in Love Is Deeper Than Distance

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