“Worshiping with others and acknowledging their presence, the God in them, is so important to me,” Daquanna Harrison said recently. “Meeting for worship is the intentional opening of a portal—a portal of knowledge, of love, of discernment.”
Daquanna (right) is one of several Friends who have discussed the experience of meeting for worship with us. Abel Sibonio (left), for example, compared communal worship to a gathering of scattered pieces of firewood; only when brought together are they able to keep the flame going. “We strengthen one another,” he explained, “and we are able to listen to those who are in need.”
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