From Off the Meetinghouse Floor

This section includes prayers, messages or reflections that came to us out of the silence of our weekly corporate worship in the manner of Friends. While every messages does not necessarily reflects the Meeting as a whole, the sharing of these reflections through this website or podcast was approved by a Monthly Meeting.

Patience and Fortitude

To survive difficult times means having the fortitude to persevere. It means holding onto resilience and compassion with a spiritual tenacity. It means no matter what, taking that one step after the next step and staying connected to each other. Fortitude means we don’t give up. This fortitude and the strength to hold onto hope can bring us through looming troubles with our spiritual essence intact, both as individuals and in community. …
fortitude and patience can ignite the embers of a healthy society and the spiritual oneness we have with each other so we can rekindle in our society the eternal fire of infinite Love that will bring us to mutual wholeness.

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Searching for Treasure

What does it mean to be searching for treasure? If you ask people what “treasure” means to them, the primary definition would probably be something connoting wealth, some sort of material thing. … Looking at world leaders, the treasure they seek seems to be – material wealth, prestige, and power. This is essentially what has created such a dire situation, an existential threat to the globe on so many levels.
However, if you change the tense of treasure from a noun to a verb and instead ask people what it is that you treasure. To this, one of the first things people might answer is my family, my friends, and other people I love.

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Following are three posts that continue with the theme of Love

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