Greetings, Friends!

Chapter 10 of Minding the Light: Our Collective Journal is now available online and attached as a PDF file below.  For this chapter, we invited Friends to respond to the query, "When has the Light been hidden?”

Responses to this query touched on many stages of waiting. . . waiting in hope and waiting in fear; waiting for Light in the darkness and waiting for answers; hope fulfilled after long waiting; unfulfilled hopes after long waiting; waiting for new beginnings after painful endings; waiting for a place to call home.

We invite you to read these nine stories for yourself and consider sharing your own response to the query.  There’s a link below to our website, where all of the chapters are available, and a link below to the print version of Chapter 9 in PDF format.

Minding the Light is a bimonthly publication of West Hills Friends, a Quaker meeting in Portland, Oregon.  Using the guidelines of "worship sharing," we invite members and attenders to reflect on a specific query for each chapter.  Earlier queries have been:  When did you first recognize the Light? When has your longing for God's Presence been unfulfilled? When have you experienced God’s presence in nature? When have you experienced God’s presence through a stranger? When has God made you laugh? What experience comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “Sacred Space”?  When has following the Light led you to a change of heart, despite initial resistance? What’s something you have created in response to the Light Within? In following the Light, when were you led to do something that was scary to think about?

Blessings!

Sally Gillette, Clerk

West Hills Friends Story Committee

Minding the Light website

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