EXPANDING THE CIRCLE

There were nine who joined together to worship in the woods on May 31.

We are grateful to have a wooded area on the meeting property where we can practice social distancing and still have a sense of a physical meeting in the Quaker manner. There were three messages which related to difficulties of bringing together the forces which seem to be pulling us apart.

Realizing that our benches could accommodate more people at a safe distance if we widened the circle, Peter and Gary moved the benches back so that they are further apart. Two to a bench, one at each end, there is room for fourteen Quakers now. 

From Dear Lord and Father of Mankind

by

John Greenleaf Whittier 

Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
Till all our strivings cease;
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
And let our ordered lives confess
The beauty of Thy peace.

                                                         

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