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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

Monday, August 24, 2020

August 24, 2020

Scripture: Habakkuk 2:20

“The Lord is in his holy temple. Did you know that holy temple is you? This is one of the great spiritual migrations within Scripture and for us as Quakers—a migration from the brick and mortar temples to the temples of flesh and blood.” –Bob Henry, Fruit of the Vine

Query: Is anything preventing you from centering down and connecting with God?


This is the breath between the question and the answer

The breath between the bread and the wine

After the thanks has been given

Before the nourishment received

(Breathe the breath between)

Where else do you find this breath hiding?

How do you pick it up?

Breathe it in and let it go?

Can you name it?

Can you name this breath?

Call it here

Call it holy

Call it home

–Bethany Lee, from “The Breath Between” in The Breath Between

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