Healing

Giving of Self

Several months ago, my spiritual path led me to an operating table where I donated a kidney to a recipient…

A Healing Presence

"Come Lord, be with us And bless what thou hast given to us." These words came to me again in…

To Live Deliberately

Henry David Thoreau explained his famous sojourn at Walden Pond with the words, "I went to the woods because I…

How I Learned to Mind My Own Business and Get Out of God's Way

She walks into the classroom. Her hair hangs carelessly like a curtain around her face. She is wearing blue jeans…

Prayer, Healing, and a Miracle

Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying…

Forgiveness: A Personal Journey

1983: Searing hurt and anger. As demanded by my new stepmother, my father has just kicked me out. The new…

The Ministry of the Comfort Quilt

Growing up in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, I was surrounded by beautiful quilts mostly made by Amish and Mennonites. My grandmother…

You Are My Sunshine

You Are My Sunshine"—we belt it out every Thursday evening, along with "The Sidewalks of New York," "A Bicycle Built…

A View from the Junior Gathering

Everyone is here, people who we know and treasure. I have to remind myself: this is FGC, the thing we…

The Healing Center

The Healing Center is a place to be just as we are—with our talents and strengths, our ills and wounds—on…

The Black Cats Taught Me Mindfulness

All-Gathering decentralized worship designed by younger Friends was scheduled for 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday. I hadn’t resisted a single…

A Ray of Hope through Reading

"Dear Sir," reads the letter I open, written in pencil on lined notebook paper; then, redundantly, "To Who it concern…
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