‘The seed needs to be seen and nurtured by the light.’ Photo: by Jonathan Kemper on Unsplash
Seed capital: David Brown’s Thought for the Week
‘Mystical awakening needs to be activated and nurtured.’
by David Brown
25th March 2022
As spring arrives, it reminds me that the image and metaphor of the seed has been very popular with Quakers. William Penn in 1694 likens the seed to the potential for inner connection with God, saying: ‘If you would know God and worship and serve God as you should do, you must come to the means he has ordained and given for that purpose. Some seek it in books, some in learned men, but what they look for is in themselves, yet they overlook it. The voice is too still, the Seed too small and the Light shineth in darkness’ (Quaker faith & practice 26.44).
