During the workshop/retreat with Merry Stanford, Friends will gather at the Browne Center for worship, prayer and discussion. To be eligible, a person must have attended meeting for worship during the past year and participated in an individual meeting with Merry and April. He or she must also commit to being present for the whole of the retreat. Eligible individuals have received an email explaining how to register. Attendees should bring a brown-bag lunch on both Saturday and Sunday. Dinner on Saturday will be provided by the Miller-Seif family.
LEYM ADVICES AND QUERIES: MEETING FOR BUSINESS
The act of listening to God’s will in Meeting for Business is a way for the Meeting to give back the expression of unconditional love. It requires faith and obedience – faith that God will lead us and that we will obey His leading. Cleveland Meeting, Eighth Month 15, 2010
Be faithful in attending and participating in meeting for worship with attention to business. Are our meetings for business held in a spirit of worship? Do we depend on the guidance of God in love and humility? Do we seek the leadings of the Spirit and admit the possibility of error? Do we help one another in our search for unity by listening well and speaking briefly without repetition?
Be tender and considerate of differing views. As difficult problems arise, are we careful to meet them with open hearts, with minds receptive to creative solutions? Can we allow our personal wishes and insights to take their places alongside those of others or even to be set aside as the meeting seeks the right way forward? Do we recognize that the search for unity may require that we accept with grace a decision of the meeting with which we are not entirely in agreement?
Do we avoid feeling pressed by time, neither unnecessarily prolonging nor curtailing discussion? Do we maintain prayerful support for the clerk that he or she may be sensitive to the movement of the Spirit among us? Do we hold each other and the whole meeting in the Light as we conduct our business?
LEYM’s Advices & Queries, for Use by Individual Friends, Meetings, and Worship Groups is available online at http://leymquaker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/aq3f2.pdf.
LEYM ADVICES AND QUERIES: MEETING FOR BUSINESS
The act of listening to God’s will in Meeting for Business is a way for the Meeting to give back the expression of unconditional love. It requires faith and obedience – faith that God will lead us and that we will obey His leading. Cleveland Meeting, Eighth Month 15, 2010
Be faithful in attending and participating in meeting for worship with attention to business. Are our meetings for business held in a spirit of worship? Do we depend on the guidance of God in love and humility? Do we seek the leadings of the Spirit and admit the possibility of error? Do we help one another in our search for unity by listening well and speaking briefly without repetition?
Be tender and considerate of differing views. As difficult problems arise, are we careful to meet them with open hearts, with minds receptive to creative solutions? Can we allow our personal wishes and insights to take their places alongside those of others or even to be set aside as the meeting seeks the right way forward? Do we recognize that the search for unity may require that we accept with grace a decision of the meeting with which we are not entirely in agreement?
Do we avoid feeling pressed by time, neither unnecessarily prolonging nor curtailing discussion? Do we maintain prayerful support for the clerk that he or she may be sensitive to the movement of the Spirit among us? Do we hold each other and the whole meeting in the Light as we conduct our business?
LEYM’s Advices & Queries, for Use by Individual Friends, Meetings, and Worship Groups is available online at http://leymquaker.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/aq3f2.pdf.
