Forrest Curo's Blog – 5th mo. 2012 Archive (3)

Hijacking Friendly Scripture Study

I’m in the process of transferring an old, inherited Bible study blog to wordpress.

That’s Reading The Light Through the Pages. It was started by a Quaker but has always been open to a range of comments and contributors.

As the last active participant from the old site, I intend to aggressively recruit new people, likewise from a wide range, but with the…

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Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 31, 2012 at 12:35am — 1 Comment

I Wasn't Given

I wasn’t given

a savage tongue

to savage people

but to wake them up

If you’re happy in your nightmare

close your earlids tight because

there’s so much for you

to look forward to.

Progress

is a figment; rationality

is a figment; the Gotcha God

ain’t gonna get you but

the music’s getting scary and

mistakes have been made;

The Judgment is now; settle

out of court; cop a plea;…

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Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 27, 2012 at 12:40am — No Comments

Let Your Life Say What?

I'm told (via "Quaker Jane") that "Let your lives speak" literally isn't in George Fox's writings.

The well-known example, of phrases that come close, is of course from his Journal. Ironically, it is in a letter he addressed "To Friends in the Ministry."

"...

"Bring all into the worship of God: plow up the fallow ground thresh and get out the corn, that all people may come to…

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Added by Forrest Curo on 5th mo. 8, 2012 at 1:38pm — 2 Comments

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