tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post5446041558020574664..comments2024-01-31T15:10:55.111+00:00Comments on Transition Quaker: Introducing Quaker WorshipCraig Barnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16201061939693242954noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-79457430704616368392020-02-29T08:47:45.921+00:002020-02-29T08:47:45.921+00:00I've just read this on our local newsletter, C...I've just read this on our local newsletter, Craig. Thanks 6oi for all the work you and the committee are putting in. As a new Quaker of less than two years, I think it will be very useful and helpful. It's a very clear and well expressed introduction to worship.<br /><br />My only comment would be that towards the end it feels like you throw in self surrender. The Isaac Pennington quote explains this very well, but should a quote not be an example rather than an explanation? Perhaps a few short words or sentences on self surrender prior to the quote would read better? Lisa Grayhttp://lisaslovelyishlife.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-31667975254061071022020-02-28T02:17:00.132+00:002020-02-28T02:17:00.132+00:00These are wonderful words and reflect the best of ...These are wonderful words and reflect the best of the meaning of Quaker worship among unprogrammed Friends. They are also words that exclude by their omission of any reference to Christ or Christianity the largest body of the world’s Quakers. They also are words that move decidedly away from beliefs and words in which Quakerism is grounded and was founded. William Hobsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11890367444768472305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-32902899504130764992020-02-26T22:42:12.804+00:002020-02-26T22:42:12.804+00:00I find the voice and message clear and inviting. ...I find the voice and message clear and inviting. Thank you for sharing this, Craig.Marcelle Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01145301330059056577noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-35840607787557760842020-02-24T18:28:52.837+00:002020-02-24T18:28:52.837+00:00Thank you Craig and best wishes for every success ...Thank you Craig and best wishes for every success to the Revision Committee. Steven also speaks my mind. Simplicity and portability of silent active listening and wordless prayer in all my activities and with all whom I encounter is an ideal. Meeting for Worship provides an opportunity to practice that every Sunday and informal fifteen-minute evening Epilogue here at 21:30 here at Quaker House Brussels helps keep the momentum going on a daily basis, as does spiritual reading and morning espresso with my wife before arising for the day. Head in the clouds, feet on the ground. Daniel Clarke Flynn, Belgium and Luxembourg Yearly Meeting newsletter editor.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03405310091345876683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-25479313009434231652020-02-24T14:30:07.474+00:002020-02-24T14:30:07.474+00:00Beautifully expressed, Craig. I especially love t...Beautifully expressed, Craig. I especially love the Gerald Hewitson quotation. But this is very much an ideal. All meetings are not like that and some meetings never manage to find this 'still pool'. Howver, the voice seems to come out of the silence, which is key.Brian C. Holleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00494001776590948715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497531321890746707.post-17255351772430333762020-02-22T19:18:31.273+00:002020-02-22T19:18:31.273+00:00I like this very much, Craig. I like that you'...I like this very much, Craig. I like that you've put the gathered meeting near the top. One suggestion: a more fully developed rationale for silent, waiting worship, starting from simplicity. <br /><br />As perhaps:<br /><br />We worship in silent expectant waiting. With the radical simplicity of silent worship, we let go of all the outward forms that might distract us, crowd out the still small voice of the Light within us, or make worship rote with repetition. In the silence, we wait for the openings of the spirit, for the sense of the Presence in our midst, and for the possibility of a calling to vocal ministry, expecting that this waiting will be answered by divine grace.Steven Davisonhttp://throughtheflamingsword.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com