Thursday, December 13, 2007
What is Quakerism?
In our meeting we are struggling mightily with what to put in our "Welcoming Pamplet". Here is my two cents:
Quakerism is about trusting people that they can know or find their own spiritual path or places. We believe that within each of us is a seed of inspiration that given time to grow in a quiet supportive place will transform us and heal us of all worldly troubles.
Much more than that we have difficulty saying because there is a world of difference between the words we use concerning that transformative thing and the thing itself within. The words themselves do so often lead us astray.
But if we wait and labour to know, understand, and allow ourselves to be guided by, the motives, leadings, teachings of the thing within we will be transformed and healed.
Quakerism is about trusting people that they can know or find their own spiritual path or places. We believe that within each of us is a seed of inspiration that given time to grow in a quiet supportive place will transform us and heal us of all worldly troubles.
Much more than that we have difficulty saying because there is a world of difference between the words we use concerning that transformative thing and the thing itself within. The words themselves do so often lead us astray.
But if we wait and labour to know, understand, and allow ourselves to be guided by, the motives, leadings, teachings of the thing within we will be transformed and healed.
