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A Quaker Prayer Life

My father describes himself as “ethnically Catholic” and on every official document lists his religion as “COSMIC.”

Dear Western Friend:

A Small Steadying Sail of Love by Nancy Gibbs Richard

Be still – free of time and space.

Be free – in the eternal and the infinite.

 

Rick Ells is a member of University Meeting in Seattle, WA (NPYM).

Over two dozen people share their thoughts and stories about their prayer lives in this collection edited by Michael Resman. Immersed in Prayer: Stories from Lives of Prayer arose from a project of the editors of the publication What Canst Thou Say, who developed sixteen queries about prayer life, which they sent to their subscribers and Quaker organizations. They ranged from “What happens when you pray?” to “What ways did you find to work around your impediments to prayer?” The sixteen queries form the structure of this book.

Dear Editor: We just received the March-April issue of Western Friend, “On Beginnings.” Thanks for including my “recipe” for peanut butter cookies! One clarification: Multnomah Meeting does not “support” Amigas del Señor in any financial or legal way. Rather, we “spiritually share in a Covenant of Caring.” It is a promise to stay in touch and hold one another in the Light.