For When People Ask

I want a word that means
okay and not okay,
more than that: a word that means
devastated and stunned with joy....

-- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #poetry

read the whole poem: grateful.org/resource/for...

“what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those things?” — Ross Gay, Inciting Joy

This online workshop with Dwight Dunston is for folks who are interested and committed to interrogating and challenging their own habits and patterns in conflict, learning new skills, and being faithful to how spirit is calling them to show up in moments of tension. pendlehill.org/calendar/lis...

#Alt4You

"Changing ourselves, changing the world" 2018 Swarthmore Lecture by Chris Alton, an artist and a #quaker
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-rp...

"as you step you into doing this work, if the work is about liberation or justice or equity or integrity... knowing that whoever you are working with is you, and having that heart connection makes all the difference in the world" -- Niyonu Spann

New mini episode of The Seed! We're revisiting our most downloaded conversation across six seasons, featuring visionary leader Niyonu Spann. Through excerpts from her full episode, Niyonu shares what it means to live with integrity and alignment with purpose. Listen wherever you get your podcasts!

This week: Wed (Sept 10th) @7:30p eastern online: Spirit-Led Listening: Ways of Listening

Holy listening, in the form of wide-open attention to a speaker and the Spirit that may be speaking through them, is a Quaker practice and an essential tool for learning and discerning Truth

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Howard Brinton writes about "religious pacifism as a positive way of life" and how that can be derived from #Quaker worship

"A new and positive word for pacifism is community."

longer quote with audio: www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/reference/pe...

〝Abuse represents not only a private tragedy, but a community failure.〞 — Jade Rockwell

Read or listen to audio recording of "Wise as Serpents, Harmless as Doves: Spiritual Approach to Abuse Prevention in Friends Meetings" www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources

A quote I love from Thomas Kelly's A Testament of Devotion.

Whether we call it the Christ Within or the Spirit, the Light calls us to live more wholly, more lovingly, from the inside out.

Returning again and again to that still centre, where love begins again.

We've started a collection of #Quaker writings on how Friends are facing the reality of abuse within our communities.

www.lifeandpowerquakerdiscernmentonabuse.com/resources