Daily online Meeting for Worship
Each morning from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts a silent, online half-hour online Meeting for Worship in the manner of Friends. The Meeting uses a website called Chatzy that provides a text-only format – no audio or video. You can join the Meeting and read more about it by following the link below. All are welcome.
Wednesday Online Worship Sharing
Each Wednesday from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Quaker Center hosts an online Worship Sharing group. Newcomers are welcome. Click the Zoom link below to join the group.
What is Worship Sharing? During Worship Sharing, friends gather in a worshipful attitude to reflect together on a short text or quote, and some related queries (open ended questions). This activity is similar to a Quaker Meeting for Worship in that, after an initial period of silence, those present speak from their own experience and allow for silence between contributions. Participants usually speak only once, allowing some silence between each sharing, until everyone who wishes to has had a chance to share. Worship Sharing is appreciated by Quakers as a way to explore ideas together, learn and listen deeply, and to get to know one another in a meaningful way.
If you’re new to Worship Sharing, you may wish to take a look at these suggested guidelines.
This week’s quotes:
Reality
In love, nothing exists between heart and Heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
true description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows;
the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
in whose Presence you are blotted out?
And in whose Being you still exist?
And Who lives as a sign for your journey?
~ Rabia al-Basr
This week’s queries:
- Do you agree that speech is born out of separation, so it disappears in perfect love?
- Do you always find it easy to express what you are experiencing in your spirit?
- How can we communicate with God and each other when we cannot find words?
First Wednesday evenings:
In-person Meeting for Worship
Each month on the first Wednesday, we’ll have an evening Meeting for Worship here at Quaker Center from 7:15 to 8:00 p.m. We’ll gather for an informal potluck before hand at about six. All are welcome. Call (831) 336-8333 with any questions, no need to RSVP. We usually meet in the Orchard Lodge, but look for the sign when you drive up – it will tell you where the Meeting for Worship will be held.
