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This Day: Visit us each day for a contemplative experience – an image, a Scripture reading, a quotation from Fruit of the Vine, a query, and a poem-prayer. On Saturday each week, we will feature an excerpted Quaker testimony. On Sunday each week, we will offer a Scripture reading, historic Quaker quotation, questions for consideration, and a personal essay from the Illuminate lesson for that week.

Photo by Eric Muhr

Photo by Eric Muhr

Thursday, October 8, 2020

October 8, 2020

Scripture: Genesis 2:4–17

“Humans can create endlessly. This is a gift we share, being made in the image of God. And from the beginning, God intended that we should collaborate in the wonder of creation.” –Howard R. Macy, Fruit of the Vine

Query: How do you join God in the work of creation, imagining what might be?


70

The true way is seldom found.

Although the sages’ words

are filled with meaning—

their actions well-reasoned—

rarely are they understood.

The answer

cannot be grasped

with the mind.

It is found in

the heart,

hidden by coarse cloth.

–Jim Teeters, Because of This

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