Spiritual practices

Judy Clinton reflects on silence, walking and writing

'I have discovered yet another way of coming to know the promptings of love and truth in my heart. This is to combine walking in nature with writing.' | Photo: Photo: Walt Stoneburner / flickr CC.

I have loved this opening advice in our little book of Advices & queries since I came to my first Quaker Meeting some twenty years ago. I knew, from my first hearing of it, that it was a deeply significant advice, but I took a long time to begin to access those promptings because I didn’t have the tools to enable me to do so. In my experience, it wasn’t something that ‘just happened’. How did I discern what were promptings from God – as opposed to the creations of my own mind?

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