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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

Thursday, August 20, 2020

August 20, 2020

Scripture: John 13:1–7

“With full awareness, she squeezed my hand, looked me in the eyes with tears, and made a change to her plan. She knew something I didn’t that day. She knew the end was really near. She made her love known to me in a way I will never forget. It was the look in her eyes, unable to do anything but hold my hand and my attention.” –Nancy Almquist, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Do you humbly and consistently show love?


8

Be water.

A stream flows forth,

refreshing all.

It doesn’t struggle,

doesn’t judge.

Make our world

livable and welcoming.

Be aware, generous, and honest,

fair and diligent,

blameless as a baby.

–Jim Teeters, Because of This

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