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Quaker Center offers a daily
online meeting for worship from 7:30 until 8:00 AM, Pacific Time. You can join us from anywhere in the world!

Wednesday morning
ONLINE WORSHIP SHARING
each Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time

This week's quotes:

“For One Who is Exhausted, a Blessing”
from Benedictus: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue

You have been forced to enter empty time.
The desire that drove you has relinquished.
There is nothing else to do now but rest
And patiently learn to receive the self
You have forsaken for the race of days.
At first your thinking will darken
And sadness take over like listless weather.
The flow of unwept tears will frighten you.
You have traveled too fast over false ground;
Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up
To all the small miracles you rushed through.
Become inclined to watch the way of rain
When it falls slow and free.
Imitate the habit of twilight,
Taking time to open the well of color
That fostered the brightness of day.
Draw alongside the silence of stone
Until its calmness can claim you.
Be excessively gentle with yourself.
Stay clear of those vexed in spirit.
Learn to linger around someone of ease
Who feels they have all the time in the world.
Gradually, you will return to yourself,
Having learned a new respect for your heart
And the joy that dwells far within slow time.

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Queries:

1. What has been your experience, if any, of feeling a distance from your soul?
2. Have you ever “learned a new respect for your heart and the joy that dwells far within slow time?

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