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WEDNESDAY MORNING WORSHIP SHARING 10 a.m. (PT)

Join Friends from around the world as we respond to queries based on short readings. Link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/91561996986?pwd=dHQxR1JvQWpnYkk3bGFBRmhCRFFnUT09

For password, Email BobFisher@QuakerCenter.org

This week’s queries are in response to a quote from a letter by Jim Green, an author and oblate of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

See Quotes and Queries, below.

The buck stops here, periodically.

An occassional visitor

NEWS from QUAKER CENTER August/ September 2020

DISCERNING HOW WAY WILL OPEN
The Quaker Center Board and Staff have completed a series of 7 Threshing Sessions (say that 3 times fast) with long term supporters, Young Adult Friends, past program participants, Quaker business leaders and others to help us discern a way forward after the pandemic has wreaked havoc on our business model.
After years of successfully balancing Quaker programs here in Ben Lomond with profitable rentals to like-minded groups, we are forced to consider new ways of fulfilling our mission “to nurture the spiritual growth and faithfulness of Friends and others, while strengthening Quakerism and its witness in the world.” Do we stay the course, pivot or completely re-invent ourselves? We have faith that way will open, but will we be ready?

ARE YOU WILLING & ABLE TO HELP?
At this moment in time, we are holding our heads above water, financially, despite losing about $15,000 per month of budgeted income. We started out with some healthy reserves, we’ve cut back on expenditures and Friends have been exceedingly generous in offering financial support. But, as the pandemic shows no sign of going away, and as we struggle, nationally and globally, with denial and a lack of informed leadership, we are nearly certain to approach the limits of our ability to stay afloat and to chart the course. Please help, as you are able:

http://www.quakercenter.org/gifts-and-donations/

GOING ONLINE!

Along with our DAILY Worship and our WEEKLY Worship Sharing, it appears that, for the foreseeable future, our MONTHLY Quaker programs will be presented online.

QUAKER QUOTES AND QUERIES

From a letter by Jim Green, an author and oblate of The World Community for Christian Meditation.

“In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus . . . affirms the central truth that the wisdom of all traditions has always known and will always show to us:

‘How blest are those who know that they are poor; the kingdom of heaven is theirs.’

It turns out that the kingdom of heaven is precisely this: the joyous realization that we possess nothing. The space and freedom this opens up for us are poetry and beauty by other names. Once we are able to let the world and everything in it be real rather than a mere series of possessions that we have uses for, only then can we truly get on with the business (which then becomes a pleasure) of looking after each other, being kind, being just. 

One of the best ways I know of realizing that I possess nothing is the practice of meditation. It is a surrender and an emptying which dissolves the gap between me and the world, between others and me, between all those labels that turn reality into possessions. This is why meditation is best described as the work of love. It’s good work.”

QUERIES: Do you “know” that you are poor? That you possess nothing? Does Quaker worship or meditation help you with this realization?

[archive of QC’s Quaker Quotes]

Redwood Lodge Exterior

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PHOTO BY LEN VAUGHN-LAHMAN SJ MERCURY NEWS SEPT 20 2004 (w/ LABYRINTH REvans) Nestled in the woods away from the Quaker Conference Center in the mountains outside of Ben Lomond, a newly consturcted labyrinth, made of simple gravel and river rock, opens in a clearing. The brainstorm of Tom Davis (background, right) , a member of the group, his permamnent creation replaces on made of rop. The labyrinth allows prayerful meditation around a predestined course, with one way in and out. Members Traci and Walter Hjelt Sullivan (cq\'d, no hyphen in last name) are on the labyrinth with Davis.
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11th Annual
MUSIC AND DANCE RETREAT
An Online Program 
December 4th – 6th  (Pacific Time)

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LIVING INTO THE CENTER: Integrity & Renewal
An Online Program 
with Quaker Center Co-Directors, Susan Wilson and Bob Fisher
December 27th – January 1st  (Pacific Time)                      Registration Open November 12 – December 21

The Casa de Luz
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The Haven exterior
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