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Twitter
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Web-page with more information about BDRC and the process

[These are all external links]

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Joss.f
Junior Gathering

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It was in Oslo that I first experienced a lit candle on the centre of the meeting table at Sunday worship there.  It made me realise how much I had missed not having candles on the meeting table back home.  Light is central to our Quaker faith, so why do we not use candles so much in Britain YM?

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It was in Oslo that I first experienced a lit candle on the centre of the meeting table at Sunday worship there.  It made me realise how much I had missed not having candles on the meeting table back home.  Light is central to our Quaker faith, so why do we not use candles so much in Britain YM?

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Finola O'S
Cambridge Hartington Grove LM

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'a daily round of beauty' with a little God as a treat

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Two felt-tip doodles responding to passage 21.28, made during the BDRC's visit to Sussex East AM.
Rhiannon Grant

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I am a mixed media artist. This is my thought of internal light which has colour and changes colour and we need darkness for it to shine 06:08:21

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We Quakers talk about the light of God and light within us. My thoughts are the light is colour it’s not like black and white tv it’s colour for me, although I love black and white. I use a journal for my art and writing as with our Quaker journaling history. I began art journaling after a trauma 16 years ago and have carried on.

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Jo Vellacott, Quaker author and researcher. Poem: The Innkeeper's Wife's Tale

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Jo Vellacott, Quaker author and researcher. Poem: The Innkeeper's Wife's Tale

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I was sent the following poem by Jo Vellacott, by a Canadian Friend, originally from England. Of course I googled the author's name and was wonderfully surprised. I'm only saddened that I did not know of the author, much earlier. What an influencial woman.

Her research lead to the Edwardian feminist and pacifist Catherine Marshall's name and portrait being engraved, with those of other suffragists, on the plinth of Millicent Fawcett’s statue, in Parliament Square, London.

The Guardian obituary (25th April 2019) notes that she "was a pioneer in the study of women’s history, drawing particular attention to the intersection between the non-militant suffrage movement and resistance to the first world war."

I hope I'm not breaking copy write lawas by sharing Jo Vellacott's poem. (My Canadain Friend does not know where she first saw it.)

Jo Vellacott--The Innkeeper's Wife's Tale
The way the men tell it
You'd never know we were there at all-
Except Mary, and they could hardly do without her.
But who ever heard of a birth with no women present?
And a joyous birth at that.

I only came to help at the last minute,
Bringing water and cloths.
I had grumbled at the arrival of Joseph and Mary,
Over-busy as I was at the time of taxation,
But I had made space for them in the stable.
How could I  have turned away that young woman,
So near her time and looking so tired from her travel?
A half hour later the young husband came in to say
They had only just settled in in time
And now Mary was really in labour.

I  sent my little Sarah for old Miriam
To come from next door to help.
Then Sarah begged to be let stay
And Miriam said she'd be glad of the young legs
If the child would act sensible and do a  bit
Of fetching and carrying if it was needed.
It wouldn't hurt anyway
To have the child there
To keep the beasts from getting in the way-
Uncommon interested,  they seemed.
Busy or not, I charged Sarah to fetch me
When the birth was near,
No matter whether I was still cleaning up
Or had dropped on my bed exhausted
I found I didn't want to miss the birth
And they'd surely be glad of the extra hands.
It wasn't going to be too convenient there in the stable.
Though with all those noisy people crowding the inn
I wasn't surprised the woman Mary
Had seemed so much to welcome
The peace and quiet of the stable.

So that's how it was
Miriam holding Mary's hand much of the time
Talking softly to her about what was happening
Helping her up when that was what was needed.
That Joseph, he was there too all the time
Seemed like a  caring man-
He and Mary both relieved to have Miriam there.
The labour went quietly, most of the time
With Mary getting on with her work,
The stable not too cold, with the warmth of the animals.
Sarah took a  catnap or two, but
There was the feeling of excitement
That always attends a birth.
She came wide awake and ungrumbling
Whenever she was needed.

I  went out when I'd at last finished the chores
Just to see how things were going.
A lovely bright starlit night it was
Cold and quiet
And one star outshining all the others
So close
It might have been just over the roof.
I went in then to catch some sleep.
Two hours later I was woken by Sarah's shake
And her excited whisper.
Tired as I'd been when I'd lain down
I was at once awake and almost as excited as Sarah
Though birth was nothing new to me, heaven knows,
Whether it was human birth or the birth of a  beast.

We three women then were there
(For little Sarah seemed a woman after that night)
And Joseph, and Mary herself, and the animals.
Mary did her part well and it all went fine
At the end. And it was a  boy
(Sarah was a  bit disappointed for a  minute or two).
When Mary had held him for a bit and was ready to rest
We put him in the manger,
Sarah had  made it look like a  proper little baby basket
And comfortable with plenty of clean straw.

After helping clean up
I went back into the inn
But not to bed. Some of the travellers
Were already stirring, though it was still dark
Or as dark as it got on that starlit night.
Miriam helped Mary take the babe to the breast
Then she went home to sleep.
Sarah, eyes shining,
Said she would stay on if Mary and Joseph didn't mind.
She could bring the baby to Mary where she slept
If he woke.
Joseph was pleased enough.
It had been a hard night for him too
After their long journey.
Sarah told me that Mary
Just smiled at her.

The events of the night weren't over either.
Sarah came running in to say
There were shepherds come down from the hills
Going on about angels
And wanting to see the baby
(And how did they know about the birth?)
A day or two later there were tall serious men
From the East
Bringing such strange and expensive gifts
Not like the bits of food and a small blanket or two
That the women round about had given
When they heard how little Mary had been able
To bring with her for the babe.

In a few days' time
They were ready to leave, and leave they did.

There were other births after and deaths too.
Was this an ordinary birth or was it something special?
Miriam and I and young Sarah
Kept these things in our hearts
Talked about them sometimes
Remembering Mary and her baby
Wondering what became of them.
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Many cultures use dance for community and ministry. Breathing in the light Ann helps us move within Robins music  16:07:21

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My art work feels like my ministry. Ive been going to creative dance classes for years, we zoomed but just going back to the studio. I was so thrilled when Woodbrooke were offering dance for worship with Robin Bowles and Ann Bettys on zoom! The only dance space is our living room so without upsetting my husband I use my art table in my bedroom! Dancing in a small space I can move but I also decided to paint movements. Robins music is so beautiful and Ann’s direction of movements is so good for our bodies, minds and and spirit.

Lesley R.

Tottenham meeting but worshiping with Woodbrooke Sunday zoom

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Woodbrooke zoom Sunday meeting for worship. 25:04:21 Pavin Patel gave ministry “that’s the beauty of death we take nothing with us” my ministry in response with

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During lockdown and the covid crisis I have been meeting for worship on Woodbrooke zoom gathering. We have people from all over the world. I prepare myself and the only good place is my art table in my bedroom. The ministry is wonderful and sometimes I am inspired by and respond with art

Lesley R.
Tottenham meeting but due to husbands illness have settled with Woodbrooke zoom meeting

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I have had 2 lessons in Woodturning and these are the results.

Anthony W

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Abigail M

NW London AM

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I'm 'no good at art' and have stuck with my chosen medium of words. And I'd like there to be more of one specific 'wordy' genre in the next Book of Discipline, please, if possible. That's Narrative.

I'll attach the sort of thing I have in mind. Bringing the Invisible into the Light, the Quaker Women's Group Swarthmore Lecture of 1986, had a profound effect on me, and I think on a large number of other Friends. There are several quotations from it in Qfp, but what I want to contribute is the story of reading it, hearing it (yes, that's the chronological order of it for me, because I reviewed it for The Friend) and letting it seep into the corners of my being.

Narrative offers something very profound to the world: complexity, contradiction, imaginative journeys through the landscape (mind-scape, heart-scape) of a multi-dimensional event. In the context of the next Book of Discipline, it would also allow personal stories to be told anonymously - narratives that would normally be un-tell-able because of the need to get permissions from other 'characters'.

We're in the process of uprooting some of the old Quaker stories though the prisms of race, gender and class, and gazing at them with shock and new realisations. So maybe it's a good time to offer narratives of this kind. It could be done via links, with a comment to introduce it such as 'Here's another view of the same situation' or 'Try this personal contribution for a change / a challenge'.

Alison L
Brighouse West Yorkshire AM

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Response to QF&P 28.11  Quakerism as a flourishing diverse-flowered plant, after YMG session 'Open to New Light' 6 Aug 2021. 

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Marian L, Redland LM, Bristol AM

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A murmeration of birds and a gathering of people in the Light

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Juda W
Southern Marches AM

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Response to QF&P 2.12, at YMG session on 30/7/21:

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Response to QF&P 2.12, at YMG session on 30/7/21:

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With a breath, words kindle a spark

into a flame.

We are the source and yet not the origin,

a spring from deep in the earth

flows through and out.

Not knowing its path, in faith it seeks

and finds a way.

The words do not have meaning until accepted,

as a gift, by an open heart,

in silent presence.

Sue P, South East Scotland AM

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These Books were made for walking (cheerfully) 

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These Books were made for walking (cheerfully) 

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A Spiritual compass is not an Achilles heel.

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A previously customized A&Q -- the Panda sitting under a Foxglove by a Stonewall clearly requires no disambiguation...

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'Through conflict handled creatively we can change and grow'

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'Through conflict handled creatively we can change and grow'

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This part of the quote under consideration during YMG's Open to New Light session on 25/7/21 helped me think about the complexity of change. New meaning and joy emerge where curiosity and love replace the trauma of conflict.
Fran W
Central AM

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Diana B, created in response to an engagement event at General Meeting for Scotland

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Just before the [Open to new Light BYG] session I was in my garden watching the pigeons.  It is not very good but expresses freedom I hope.

Gail L
North West London AM

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be non-linear, innovative, and hold all of the cosmos as sacred.

Jessica HB
Sheffield & Balby AM

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Thank you for the [Open to new Light BYG] session today. I did not do this all at the session but I think it shows how we can be random but also very controlled.

Gail L
North West London AM

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"I was early convinced in my mind that true religion consisted in an inward life wherein the heart doth love and reverence God the Creator and learns to exercise true justice and goodness not only toward all men but also toward the brute creation; that as the mind was moved on an inward principle to love God as an invisible, incomprehensible being, on the same principle it was moved to love him in all his manifestations in the visible world; that as by his breath the flame of life was kindled in all animal and sensitive creatures, to say we love God … and at the same time exercise cruelty toward the least creature … was a contradiction in itself."
- John Woolman, 1772

The attached is a cyanotype of sycamore wings (“helicopter seeds”), a piece called “By his breath the flame of life”.

Below is a link to a description of cyanotype photographic printing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype

Liz B
Sussex East AM

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"Listening to the Light" pre-text subtext :-)

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I am honored to be a guest from NPYM in Portland Oregon. This artwork was about the process of allowing ourselves to be changed during a conflict. -

Glee L

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last night flowers flew,
I heard a cuckoo, saw a swan

then put on my dancing shoes
over my thick wool socks

and waltzed around the globe
before coming back to roost

for another day
in this body

which for now,
I call home

Lesley M
Charlbury LM

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How do we listen, openly and attentively - reaching out beyond our egos, unfettered by the illusions of dogma, power and cultural differences in the world with infinite pluralism??
How do we embrace the whole of nature, the earth and cosmos; with all the tribes and nations, whether poor, affluent, rich, suffering or not, past, present or future??
Let the hand of the inner light, humbly reach out with love, wisdom and compassion.

Mike B
Hastings Meeting

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Principles for Sharing the Quaker Experience - the movie!

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Principles for Sharing the Quaker Experience - the movie!

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Simon G,
Central England AM

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Principles for Sharing the Quaker Experience

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I experienced enormous pleasure in being able to ‘alter’ the book - normally a heretical action in my eyes - to produce a new, slimmed down book with many exciting possibilities because of the wide open spaces now inside the covers…

Mary W
SE Scotland AM

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Richard S
Ipswich Meeting

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Rather strangely, a sense of Quaker discipline has become one of the most important things to me. The discipline of regular attendance, the discipline of accepting and valuing the experience of others. The discipline of the Quaker way, which frustratingly, can be so indefinite that penning it on paper can be like pinning a jelly on a dart board! Being a Quaker is about feeling OK about your own spiritual and religious experience, whilst knowing it is a journey. The God/Spirit/Goodness/Light that you have experienced is to be treasured and can be found in all we meet. It isn’t comparative, or right or wrong. Christ may speak to your condition, or a tree may, if either or neither do that is ok.  What we have in common is not what we believe, but how we believe; how we accept and love and learn from others experience. 

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Rather strangely, a sense of Quaker discipline has become one of the most important things to me. The discipline of regular attendance, the discipline of accepting and valuing the experience of others. The discipline of the Quaker way, which frustratingly, can be so indefinite that penning it on paper can be like pinning a jelly on a dart board! Being a Quaker is about feeling OK about your own spiritual and religious experience, whilst knowing it is a journey. The God/Spirit/Goodness/Light that you have experienced is to be treasured and can be found in all we meet. It isn’t comparative, or right or wrong. Christ may speak to your condition, or a tree may, if either or neither do that is ok.  What we have in common is not what we believe, but how we believe; how we accept and love and learn from others experience. 

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Rob C-I
West Scotland AM

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An episode of the Young Quaker Podcast, where a Meeting for Worship was recorded.

Jessica HB
Sheffield & Balby AM

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#4 - Silence Special by Young Quaker Podcast

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Welcome to the Young Quaker Podcast! This is our Silence Special episode, where we have recorded a Meeting for Worship for the podcast. If you want to know about more about meeting for worship check out our mini-episode on it. Below you can find a list of links mentioned in the podcast, as well as a mini glossary of any Quaker terms that were used in this episode. Enjoy!

If you have any feedback for us or would like to be a guest on the show, please get in touch at youngquakerpodcast@gmail.com or tweet us @youngquakerpod

Host: Jessica Hubbard-Bailey
Script Editing: Laurence Hall
Audio Editing: Jack Sibley
Music: Jack Sibley & Joseph Hubbard-Bailey

The Young Quaker magazine: http://theyoungquaker.org.uk/
Young Friends General Meeting: http://yfgm.quaker.org.uk/
Quakers in Britain: www.quaker.org.uk
BBC Slow Radio Podcast: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05k5bq0/episodes/downloads

Glossary of Quaker terms used in the episode:
Meeting for Worship - One of the central ways that Quakers worship. British Quakers gather together in silence but anyone present can speak if strongly moved to.
Meeting House - A venue used for Meeting for Worship and other Quaker activities.
Ministry - Although Meeting is usually held in silence in the UK, sometimes people are moved to share aloud what they feel, also known as 'ministry'. Anyone can give ministry, including visitors. Quaker Faith & Practice states: “Ministry should be of necessity, and not of choice, and there is no living by silence, or by preaching merely.” 2.61 
Unprogrammed Worship - Silent worship that takes place with no hymns, prayers, sermons, ministers, or creeds.

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A Christmas thought and a test video!

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Follow Qfp 28:12 with a call to communicate, listen and learn; I dream of this two way communication, developing to shared worship between gathered Meetings, no need to meet in person, perhaps write a letter and get a time (remembering time zones), use the communication tools of our time, SMS (perhaps to a computer), Twitter, Facebook, links to websites, and of course Zoom; or just phone.

HMP

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Nuala W
West Scotland AM

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I am really taken with the fifth insight: "We hold the whole of life sacramental and so we do not divide the sacred and the secular". However, I would to see added something on the "inanimate" as well. Surely rocks and water, for example, are sacred  as well?  - Ed Tyler, West Scotland Area Meeting. The picture below is a view from island to island in the Hebrides - beside which I live.

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I am really taken with the fifth insight: "We hold the whole of life sacramental and so we do not divide the sacred and the secular". However, I would to see added something on the "inanimate" as well. Surely rocks and water, for example, are sacred  as well?  - Ed Tyler, West Scotland Area Meeting. The picture below is a view from island to island in the Hebrides - beside which I live.

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I've always found QF&P 10.18 speaks to me and would like to see it retained. Partly because it reminds us that 'humble tasks' should be valued equally with more noticeable witness. And partly because I personally have at time really needed to hear the advice to wait without anxiety, exercising a ministry of prayer, to know what my part of the work of creating a better world should be.

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To make a safe home for small children, to comfort one person in sorrow, to do one's work as efficiently as possible, to listen with understanding, to be gentle with the old and courteous to the young - these are the humble tasks to which most men and women are called. They build the home or the meeting or the community which is the first step towards the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. The second is to be aware of greater tasks and to be ready to be used in solving them - ready, not worried or anxious or envious, but content to wait, exercising a ministry of prayer to sustain the healers and the reconcilers already at work in their thousands.

Olive Tyson, 1966

← 10.17 10.19 →

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To make a safe home for small children, to comfort one person in sorrow, to do one's work as efficiently as possible, to listen with understanding, to be gentle with the old and courteous to the young - these are the humble tasks to which most men and women are called.

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Rose E,  Cotteridge Meeting.
I made this and my other picture at the national online youth group in August.

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Rose E,  Cotteridge Meeting.

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When thinking of the scriptures and that the early christians
Were  captivated by the power and beauty of the teachings
As a light which illuminated the whole of life as never before.
In a drawn together meeting the power of God,s presence
Is skiving breathing peace which feels like a hotline to heaven
Sometimes with one all week

This is the way I see it

Vivienne J H

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This drawing is one of a series of meditations on error. Each begins with the perimeter line of a perfect circle and evolves from my repeated attempts to perfectly copy the preceding line. My mistakes create the drawing’s fascinating shapes, reminiscent of fingerprints and tree rings. Mistakes are all too often seen as negative and painful, however, if we take the time to consider the possibilities that they may offer, they can also be sources of learning, inspiration, discovery and reconciliation.

The use of gold in this particular drawing is inspired by the related Japanese philosophies of kintsugi and wabi-sabi. Literally meaning ‘golden repair’ kintsugi reveals the scars of time and mishap in its approach to broken objects.  Wabi-Sabi is an aesthetic centred on the acceptance of flaws and transience, finding beauty in the impermanent, incomplete and imperfect.

As a Quaker, I believe that there is something of God in everyone. One place that God (or Good) might be found in our 21st century world is in the process of learning from, and acceptance of, our mistakes as well as those made by others.

Kirsten L
Jesus Lane Meeting, Cambridge

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John L

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Created during the EfM residential week 2016

Mary W
SE Scotland AM

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John L

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We were encouraged at GM to spend a few minutes drawing or writing something:

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We were encouraged at GM to spend a few minutes drawing or writing something:

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Nigel D
Aberdeen/North Scotland

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This poem was written during an Equipping for Ministry session in  2016.

by Lea C
Worcester LM

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Susan H-L
West Somerset AM

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The first part of QF&P 19.28 by William Penn is deservedly often quoted ('The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion...') but I also love the latter part: '...the less form in religion the better, since God is a Spirit'. Penn says worship should be 'mental', which is a word that challenges me as it has connotations (for me) of 'intellectual'. If worship and ministry flow from a response to, and awareness of the Spirit, there may not be much form, but there will be energy and life. I've dabbled (literally) in painting recently, and notice that there is more energy and vibrancy in the formless mix of colours on my palette than in the finished picture, where form has tried to capture and pin down something, instead of purely seeking and responding to the stimulus.

Sue P
South East Scotland AM

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A quote from Henri Nouwen'sThe Way of the Heart:

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A quote from Henri Nouwen'sThe Way of the Heart:

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"...silence reveals itself as the mystery of the future world ..by teaching us to speak. A word with power is a word that comes out of silence. A word that bears fruit is a word that emerges from the silence and returns to it. It is a word that reminds us of the silence from which it comes and leads us back to that silence.
All this is true only when the silence from which the word comes forth is ..... the divine silence in which love rests secure."

Dorothy D.
Portsmouth LM

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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I'd like to see "proceed as the way opens" (I couldn't find it in F&P but of I've missed it, I'd like it retained

Obviously 16.56 needs revising re Civil partnerships and Marriage

I was hoping to send some art, but nothing has arisen....yet

Sally S
Chester Meeting

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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My own Quaker faith & practice would.....

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My own Quaker faith & practice would.....

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reflect the use of writing poems and making art to explore matters of concern or experience. The current pandemic lockdown has led me back to exploring my use of art in a new way - one that has taken into consideration my age, health and diminishing energy levels. This engagement has also encouraged me to ask for help from ‘DIY’ neighbours in procuring a supply of materials - in this case small postcard-sized offcuts of mdf board. The artwork produced is the result of careful preparation (sanding edges and giving the surface a coat of emulsion from an old tester pot) followed by sitting contemplatively with one or two of these blank surfaces at a time. Centring down you could say. I too aim to be a blank canvas with no preconceptions, waiting for the inner spirit’s promptings.
Perhaps a particular colour combination suggests itself or a mood arises which calls for expression. My hand reaches for brush rag and paint, and an apparently random process begins which might feel complete in 30 minutes or extend over days or weeks in five or ten minute slots between domestic activities, just to keep the process alive. I seek to engage my whole self in this process rather like prayer or meditation. I often get stuck and and end up covering everything so far with a randomly applied layer of paint, or picking up a sanding block and rubbing the surface back until something fresh emerges, and off we go again.
Amazingly I have accumulated almost 20 of these small pieces and yet there is no specific ‘narrative’ visible. Each has its own voice, and yet, this is a recognisable body of work within very particular boundaries - a very Quakerly image!
At the point of writing this, I remain uncertain as to their future destiny (or mine) if any. A timely experience to be having. I remain locked in uncertainty, yet hopeful that this quiet solitary process of trust might some day bear fruit.

Ann J
Devon AM

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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Walk Cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

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Walk Cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone.

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Jean Chettle
Kelso LM.

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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Linda C
Bristol AM

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Jackie L.
Cockermouth Friends

Save Us

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By Karon TH
Northamptonshire AM

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charcoal and acrylic on canvas

Brian D.
Friends House LM

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I read recently, for I think the first time, QFP 2.29 and was particularly struck by the memorable final sentence: "Whenever we intercede in prayer we must be prepared for an answer which places a practical obligation upon us.  A prayer is always a commitment."

Tom S, Norfolk and Waveney AM

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The drawing emerged from a workshop I attended during our Area Meeting Retreat in 2013 on the theme of 'Joy & Generosity'.  The workshop was about connecting to and expressing our 'Inner Sparkle' (who could resist with such a theme?) and was led by the wonderful Viv Whitaker.  Following a meditation to brush away the things that block our inner sparkle, we were encouraged to express our inner sparkle artistically through a medium we were drawn to and using our non-dominant hand.  What emerged for me were sweeps of charcoal that morphed very naturally into the shape of a butterfly.  I am so right-handed that this left-handed work seemed to me the most amazing response.  I vividly remember, too, that we wrote down things which blocked our inner sparkle on pieces of paper and were then asked to place these in a bowl of water.  We watched as these 'wet blankets' dissolved magically before our eyes.  Such a special spiritual experience.  I hope that my image conveys just a little of the joy and freedom that this workshop helped me to connect to.

Anne d G

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What Quaker writing brings you joy or describes your sense of joy in being Quaker? What image would you use? What words?

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True Community - an experience of grace. 

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True Community - an experience of grace. 

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This passage came up in a discussion with Friends about places where we saw use of humour in the current book.

Rosie C,
Sheffield & Balby AM

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A constant challenge in producing a book of discipline is that Quakerism isn't a single line, it might be a spiral or a net or a journey or a more or less interconnected whole. In this diagram I just put down some words and some of their connections to give a flavour of this complexity.

Rhiannon G,
Central England AM

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Rhiannon G,
Central England AM

Some ideas about what a book of discipline might have...

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GIVE over thine own willing
give OVER thy own running
give over thine own desiring to know or be anything
and SINK down to the SEDD
that God sows in the heart and
let that GROW in thee and be in thee and act in thee,
and thou shalt find by sweet experience that the Lord knows that and loves and owns that...
Isaac Pennington, 1661

written out by Rhiannon G,
Central England AM

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Flow  'an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness'

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Flow  'an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness'

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My oil painting
Peter V,
Norfolk and Waveney AM

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Mary W
South East Scotland AM

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How lucky are we?!  As a wide, rambling, diverse Quaker family, we can re-write our scriptures, our spiritual guidance, our voice to each other and to the world, so that it reflects who we are.  It may take time and a lot of effort, but we have that privilege as Quakers.  How many other religions and faith groups can say that?

Bronwen C
Islay & Jura Local Meeting
West Scotland AM

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Mary W
South East Scotland AM