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Permalink Reply by Raye on 8th mo. 17, 2009 at 6:35pm

Dear Friend Faye,

Thanks for thy loving thoughts on the delights and difficulties as Ohio Yearly Meeting becomes a multi-generational spiritual community spread across the globe.

I have faced temptations related to thy cautions about pride and fear, so I know these can rise up against us as individuals and a body. They can disguise themselves, also, and be difficult to recognize in oneself. Happily, the Lord has been gracious in guiding me through and away from such, and He has sent caring Friends to assist in that as well.

As to getting low, in case we have any very new-to-Friends readers, I would like to explain that to get low, or to keep low, means the opposite of power-grabbing ambition. Keeping low, we don't spend more than we earn in order to keep up appearances, we don't try to "be somebody" we don't run roughshod over other people to accomplish our goals.

Keeping low, we let the Lord guide us into the way He wishes us to go, without feeling that we are being deprived because we think we deserve better.

Many blessings, dear Friend.

Permalink Reply by Isabel Penraeth on 8th mo. 18, 2009 at 11:05am

Perhaps it is because I am still recovering from the travels, but I don't yet feel free to write much about the experience. I believe the most accurate thing I can say at this point about OYM for the Colorado contingent was that it was both exhausting and exhilarating.

Permalink Reply by Isabel Penraeth on 8th mo. 20, 2009 at 11:03am

I say, bring on the curmudgeons, but perhaps thee would feel free to contact those newcomers in whom thee detected these notions and labor with them privately.