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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, August 21, 2020

August 21, 2020

Scripture: John 6:5–13

“Jesus already knew what was going to take place. And I have to believe Jesus knew he had the ability to quickly take care of what was needed on his own. Instead, Jesus asked for the input of his followers.” –Nancy Almquist, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Do you invite others to be a part of the solution (whatever it may be)?


Teacher, is not your castle-dream to create community

work together, laugh together, listen together

Please wait for me… or at minimum—send help

for a flash you see me

I flutter, hope-filled

but your gaze shifts back

“Mary has chosen the good part”

–Joann Renee Boswell, from “Minimized Memoir” in Cosmic Pockets

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