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Healing
Unclean!
The sun was pressing down as hard as it could on the Earth that day, till it felt that my…
Charles David Kleymeyer
Surviving Winter
When I woke up one morning last winter, it was five degrees. The cold was paralyzing. At 6:30 am, an…
Elizabeth Claggett-Borne
Healing in Meeting for Worship at the 1995 FGC Gathering
What is the ground and foundation of the gathered meeting? In the last analysis, it is, I am convinced, the…
Rich Van Dellen
The Wounding and Healing of the Human Spirit
Sometimes when I’m tired—almost too tired—I can’t sleep. I want more food for the world and less suffering. I feel…
Daniel Gottlieb
Tree Trust
I’m sitting under the dense canopy of a Mexican elderberry tree. There are two such trees in the front yard…
Alicia Adams
Features
Christmas Light
Photo by kwasny222 Last year I was not in the mood for the Friends’ holiday party, though it is usually…
Eleanor Wright
A Journey of Love and Entreaty
We received this article with a cover letter by Anne Morrison Welsh.
Dorothy J. Mock
Friends Peacemaking in Burundi
It would be hard for people to kill each other when they have been laughing and crying together in such…
David Zarembka
Where the Light Shines Through
Every autumn I am reminded of a precious lesson I was once given, a glimpse of truth about the Light…
Ann Y. Robinson
Only the Wounded Can Heal
At a meeting for worship a Friend quoted the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, as saying: "Only the wounded can heal." My…
Elizabeth Watson
Finding Hope
Since the national election in the United States last November, I’ve been reading many commentaries by people who hoped for…
Susan Corson-Finnerty
A Kitchen with a View
A kitchen tells you a lot about a home and the people who live there. Grandmother Corpening’s kitchen in rural…
Anne Morrison Welsh
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