The passage shared during Meeting for Worship was from Carol Murphy:

Now is where we live, now is where the past must be overcome, now is where we meet others, now is where we must find the presence of God.

Carol Murphy (1916-1994) devoted the majority of her life to the study of religious philosophy and pastoral psychology at Pendle Hill, the Quaker study center in Pennsylvania. She first studied political science at Swarthmore College and International Studies at American University. She found her true vocation as a writer and an editor in 1947, when she moved to Pendle Hill. She published seventeen books and pamphlets with Pendle Hill Publications, making her one of its most prolific authors. In addition to her writing, she was a member of Swarthmore Friends Meeting and served on the Pendle Hill Publications Committee and the board of the Friends Historical Library.