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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, September 10, 2020

September 10, 2020

Scripture: Proverbs 25:11–13, 20–24

“Write your story. These are not only a means of creative faith expression, they can be healing for the writer and become a living legacy.” –Darlene Graves, Fruit of the Vine

Query: What written works guide your journey?


The Spirit-filled teacher

sees clearly,

is not trapped

in the pull of opposites.

She teaches

with her mouth shut,

nurtures others

with non-possessive warmth,

setting them free.

Accomplishes

yet needs no affirmation.

Strives not

and

possesses all.

–Jim Teeters, from “2” in Because of This

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