Chapter 11 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, "What experience of the Light do you treasure?”  We received nine responses – eight stories and a drawing.  The stories tell of a broad range of experiences that felt particularly meaningful or significant to the authors and continue to inspire and comfort them

We invite you to read these stories for yourself and consider sharing your own response to this query on QuakerQuaker. 

There’s a link below to our website, where all 11 chapters of Minding the Light are available and also a link to a PDF version of Chapter 11.

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?  When was the Light hidden?

Blessings!

Sally Gillette, Clerk

Story Committee, West Hills Friends

Minding the Light website

Chapter 11 PDF