Vocation is not a goal to achieve, but a gift to receive. It's about accepting our true self, not becoming something we're not. (Parker Palmer, #Quaker)

Mistakes and wrong turns can hold important clues to our vocation. Our lives are experiments with truth.

When I was a kid so much life was packed into a single day. Now I feel like the years fly by. One day my daughter is born. I blink and she's a teenager carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Mount Holly Friends Meeting Mount Holly, NJ #quaker #meetinghouse

Life moves forward unevenly. Sudden flashes of insight change your direction forever. But it also moves patiently along with the daily grind of waking up and going to bed and everything in between. If you show up every day, you stack another brick and hopefully you can look back and see a foundation one day. Everything built on that foundation last varying lengths, but the foundation is crucial. Perhaps you want to tear down the house and rebuild. You'll rebuild on that foundation. It never really leaves you. You can count on it.

The Light Within guides us to seek truth and speak it boldly. Nostr provides a place where this light can shine unhindered. #quakerstr

As we have no need for steeples or altars, Nostr needs no central servers. Our community is built on relays and shared purpose. #quakerstr

Friends, let us gather in this new meeting house called Nostr. Here, we can speak freely and listen to the still, small voice within. 🤙 #quakerstr

Humans have severely damaged Earth's ecology over the last century. While climate change is real, I doubt the most dire forecasts. Human are wired to fear losses more than appreciating gains, so the powerful will likely compel the weak to make sacrifices. This may lead to another instance of colonial powers exploitating the Global South.

In Nostr, we find a testimony to simplicity and integrity. It asks only for our words, not our worldly possessions or personal information. #quakerstr

Quaker Quicks - A Simple Faith in a Complicated World: One Quaker's Journey through Doubt to Faith by Kate McNally #quaker #bookstr

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Conflict in community can reveal important truths. It challenges us to yield to something bigger than our own ideas of right and wrong.

Community isn't always idyllic. It's not just friendliness and agreement. Often, it's about navigating conflict together.

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ht Shane Claiborne

The Chaplain who Blessed the Hiroshima Bombers, Repents "I struggled. I argued. But yes, there it was in the Sermon on the Mount, very clear: “Love your enemies. Return good for evil.” I went through a crisis of faith. Either accept what Christ said, as unpassable and silly as it may seem, or deny him completely."

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The Chaplain who Blessed the Hiroshima Bombers Repents

Editor’s Note: the following piece was originally published on the RLC Blog on August 6, 2014. August 6, 2014 Sixty-nine years ago, as a Catholic...