QUERY FOR JANUARY

*In what ways has the Living Presence awakened my faith and turned me around?

*As a Meeting how do we support each other in being faithful?

*In what ways does our Meeting help to develop the spiritual lives of our children?

*Do we provide our children and adults with a framework for active on going participation in Meeting?

QUERY FOR DECEMBER

• Do we each take an active part in the life of our Meeting?

• How do we recognize the varied skills and spiritual gifts of our members and attenders?

• How do we nurture their use and growth?

• In what ways are we bringing together members and attenders, young and old, in love and community?

Michigan Friends Center: Living Lightly: a gathering to inspire and celebrate delighted “enoughness”.

Cost: $35.00 to register before Nov. 15; $50.00 at the door. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Dean Emeritus Jim Crowfoot of U of M’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment will speak on Changing joyously to Achieve Sustainability: Using Spirit, Experience, and Science-based Information. Small focus groups will take up various sustainability issues and identify resources to meet the challenges. The day will also include time for personal and group reflection, a simple, delicious lunch featuring local produce, and light, lively music.

QUERY FOR NOVEMBER

• Do we regard our time, talents, energy, money, material possessions and other resources as gifts from God to be held in trust and shared according to the light we are given?
• How do we express this conviction?
• What are we doing as individuals and as a Meeting to use and thereby perfect our gifts?
• How do we encourage others to use theirs?

QUERY FOR JUNE

• Are our Meetings for Business held in the spirit of a Meeting for Worship in which we seek divine guidance for our actions in love and mutual forbearance?
• How well do our Meetings for Business lead to a corporate search for and revelation of God's truth?
  
• As difficult problems arise, are we careful to meet them in a spirit of love and humility with minds open for creative solutions?
  
• Do we avoid pressure of time, neither unnecessarily prolonging or unduly curtailing full discussion?
  
• Do we recognize that the search for unity may require us to accept with good grace a decision of the Meeting with which we are not entirely in agreement?
  
• Are younger Friends, new members, and attenders given appropriate responsibility in the Meeting?

QUERY FOR APRIL

• Do we center our lives in the awareness of the presence of God so that all things take their rightful place?
• Do we keep our lives uncluttered with things and activities and avoid commitments beyond our strength and light?
• Is the life of the Meeting so ordered that it helps us simplify our personal lives?
• Do we order our individual lives so as to nourish our spiritual growth?

QUERY FOR MARCH

• Do we live the virtue of that life and power which takes away the occasion of all war?
• Do we refrain from taking part in war as inconsistent with the spirit of Christ?
• What are we doing to remove the causes of war and to bring about the conditions of Peace?
• Where there are hatred, division and strife, how are we instruments of reconciliation and love?
• As we work for peace in the world, are we nourished by peace within ourselves?