Category: NEYM
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The Purpose of Wings
Dear Friends, Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to gather with Friends from across New England and New York Yearly Meetings to explore the ways we “hold the whole” of our spiritual communities. Hearing from people about their experiences, I was moved by this reflection from Kathleen Wooten of Fresh Pond (MA) Friends Meeting, and…
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The Yet-Unknowable Shore
Share Tweet Forward MARCH 2019 The Yet-Unknowable Shore La Loma de La Cruz, Holguin, Cuba. Photo: Noah Merrill “But you cannot see my face, for no one shall see me and live.” And the LORD continued, “See there is a place by me where you shall stand on the rock; and while my glory passes…
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Living Faith Spring 2019
Dear Friends, Registration is now open for the next Living Faith gathering, to be held Saturday, April 6, in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts! Please share the invitation with your networks, including meeting email lists, newsletters, announcements, social media, and word of mouth. We hope to see you there. In the Light, The Living Faith Spring 2019…
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The Thinking Heart
At night as I lay on my plank bed surrounded by women and girls … who often told me during the day, “we don’t want to think, we don’t want to feel, otherwise we are sure to go out of our minds,” I was sometimes filled with an infinite tenderness, and lay awake for hours…
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Always Coming Home
Dear Friends, A Friend once told me a story. It went something like this: Long ago, the swallows that now journey across the globe didn’t migrate with the changing seasons. The swift and graceful birds wandered aimlessly from place to place, without guidance or direction for their flight. One bright clear day, they came to…
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A Moment to Give Thanks
A Moment to Give Thanks Artwork: Maggie Nelson, Portland (ME) Friends Meeting Dear Friends, Before something new begins, it’s important to pause to give thanks. Here’s some good financial news: Thanks to you and hundreds of Friends like you from Connecticut to Maine, in the recently-ended fiscal year New England Yearly Meeting of Friends met…
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The Kindling Power
Most persons are awakened and set on their new track of life through the quickening and kindling power of some person who becomes for them the instrument of inspiration and of the creation of faith and the vision of a nobler way of life. Persons are set on fire by someone who is already aflame.…
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With Our Whole Hearts
Dear Friends, I’ve been ill for the past few weeks, so I hope you’ll forgive my not sharing a longer reflection this month. Last week, with support from many Friends, our presiding clerk and I published a public statement on behalf of Quakers in New England, “The Love that Overcomes.” You can read the letter here.…
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The Love That Overcomes
November 3, 2018 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God –Romans 8:38-39 This week, Quaker communities of faith across…
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Three Days Left to Give
Three Days Left to Give Here we have a prospect of one common interest from which our own is inseparable, that to turn all the treasures we possess into the channel of universal love becomes the business of our lives… …
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