Thought for the Week: Being a Quaker
Why being a Quaker feels like coming home
If you embrace life and love
with a hope that finds light in the now
and may or may not call it God…
but feel it, breathe it, reach for it anyway.
If you long to rest in the silence
and wait for the shining that is truth,
whether a tear can hold it, or a smile or only a drifting,
whether it’s anchored in a wholeness of calm
or freed in a stirring that calls you
to walk with mystery,
and whether it’s voiced through the stillness
or deeper than words can go.
If you believe in loving without labels or divides,
in peace that’s for making and keeping and striving for,
and in treading lightly, with reverence,
on this earth we’re passing through – and on.
If you long to connect without judgement
with those souls you cannot read,
and the pulse of all being, its music and colours,
beyond and within.
If all this feels to you like freedom,
then you might be a Quaker too
at heart.
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