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Why so Many Queries?
by Carol
Queries before meeting for business, queries before worship, queries for worship sharing – sooner or later you may begin to think Quakers are obsessed with queries. In fact, we are -- and with good reason too.
Dogmatic answers are imposters, never more than partial, never anything but incomplete, while queries can function like guideposts helping us find our own road to transcendence.
Twenty-one SAYFers – teens and adults – met at our meetinghouse the weekend of April 23rd. They came from Atlanta, Nashville, Berea KY, and Black Mt NC. While they were here they visited the National Civil Rights Museum, cooked their own meals, and slept on the floor wherever they found a comfortable spot. Shahin, Blake, Sandy, and Kelly served as night-shepherds staying awake either from midnight to 3 or 3 to 6 a.m. The group came to Meeting for Worship Sunday the 24th, expressed their thanks to us, and left early for their long trips home.
Our Farm
Seeds in my pocket
I press my fingers into the soil
Dropping seeds into the divots
The rain soaks the earth
My shoes, are full of mud
At night I dream of sunflowers
And time, as it slips by
I press my fingers into the day
Holding onto the minutes
We, are sunflowers
Reaching up to the beams
Until our heads, bowed
Ali
Light at the End of the Tunnel
by several Memphis Friends
The awful pandemic metrics of this past winter are coming down. We may be back in the meetinghouse in the next month or two. After two false starts, we may even be able to stay this time. Our meeting community has not taken a headcount, but it's likely that almost all of us have been vaccinated and boosted. The estimate is that nearly 3/4ths of Americans now have significant immunity one way or the other.
Meeting for Learning
by Carol & David, and Laura H.
Quakers have a long tradition of meeting for a 2nd hour on Sunday mornings to take care of whatever can’t be accomplished in worship: managing meeting business but also what other churches call adult Sunday school. Since 1984, when the current Memphis Friends Meeting was organized, we have held regular Meetings in the hour before worship: attention to business every 2nd Sunday and Meeting for Learning every 3rd and 4th Sunday.
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