The following excerpt is from a new post titled "A Colony of Heaven" which can be found at Abiding Quaker.

There is in every culture a germ or seed of origin that determines its form and function. In time, too many accretions burden the entity; distort its function; and cause it to fail, to die, leaving behind a hollow shell of what once lived. Prophets call us to honor and return to the source, the living seed, and not to worship the cultural casing that once held its outgrowth.

Image: "Golden Sea - A New Song" by Makoto Fujimura