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Western Quaker Meetings and beyond

Earth Day Live
from Mary Klein, Palo Alto Friends Meeting (to be 4/22/2020)
 
Building a Nonviolent Campaign
from Eileen Flannagan, eileenflannagen.com (to be 5/7/2020)
 
ICE Detention Crisis
from Linnea Wang, Montana Gathering of Friends (4/10/2020)
 
IMYM Needs Your Ideas
from Gale Toko-Ross & Valerie Ireland, IMYM Co-clerks (4/10/2020)
 
Invitation from Woolman
from Amy Cooke, Woolman at Sierra Friends Center (4/10/2020)
 
Light Squad Ministry
from Zae Illo, San Francisco Friends Meeting (4/10/2020)
 
We Are Not Together
from Zae Illo, San Francisco Friends Meeting (4/8/2020)
 
Friendly Water on YouTube
from Will Forester, Friendly Water for the World (4/7/2020)
 
Love & Coronavirus – Recording
from Steve Finger, Flagstaff Friends Meeting (4/7/2020)
 
Surviving Life’s Unfairness
from Vona Van Cleef, Newsletter Editor, El Paso Monthly Meeting (4/4//2020)
 
Jesus Rode a Donkey
from Linda Seger, Colorado Springs Friends Meeting (4/2/2020)
 

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The light more and more arose . . .

A great power of darkness seemed so to prevail as entirely for a considerable time to close up and block the way to any public service.  But as I patiently submitted to the baptism and willingly became baptized with and for the dead – as it is only through death that the resurrection from death can be witnessed – a little glimmering of light appeared, in which I felt the necessity of standing up, but with the utmost caution to mind the stepping stones. For my way (for a time) was like passing through a miry bog, enclosed with mist and darkness, with but just light enough to see the way – and that composed of stepping stones, and but one visible at a time. And when I had taken one step and found it to be solid and sure, I had then to look carefully for the next.

And as I thus proceeded, keeping my eye single to the light that led the way, the light more and more arose out of obscurity and the darkness vanished. And [God, who] opens and none can shut, and shuts and none but himself can open, made way for the promotion of his own righteous cause and the exaltation of Truth’s testimonies.

– Elias Hicks (1819)
 

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