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Mar 31, 2025: Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for …
Mar 30, 2025: Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. …
Mar 29, 2025: Do you use your time, energy, resources, gifts, and material possessions in the service of God’s love? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #13
Mar 29, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Mar 28, 2025: Consider which of the ways to happiness offered by society are truly fulfilling and which are potentially corrupting and destructive. Be …
Mar 28, 2025: Do you cherish your friendships, so that they grow in depth and understanding and mutual respect? In close relationships we may risk pain as well as …
Mar 27, 2025: What do Jesus’ life and ministry mean to you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #9
Mar 27, 2025: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Mar 26, 2025: Do you listen for the Spirit even when the words are foreign to you? Is your own understanding of God enriched by other people’s experiences of the …
Mar 26, 2025: We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the …
Mar 25, 2025: How does Truth prosper among you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #1
Mar 25, 2025: Let your life speak. — New England Yearly Meeting #14
Mar 24, 2025: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Mar 24, 2025: Know who you are spiritually, and trust God to know where you are going. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #12
Mar 23, 2025: When you are preoccupied and distracted in meeting let wayward and disturbing thoughts give way quietly to your awareness of God’s presence among us …
Mar 23, 2025: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Mar 22, 2025: Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to …
Mar 22, 2025: Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others in expectant waiting we may discover a deeper sense …
Mar 21, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Mar 21, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Mar 20, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Mar 20, 2025: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Mar 19, 2025: Are you honest and truthful in all you say and do? Do you maintain strict integrity in business transactions and in your dealings with individuals and …
Mar 19, 2025: Be aware of the spirit of God at work in the ordinary activities and experience of your daily life. Spiritual learning continues throughout life, and …
Mar 18, 2025: Do you use your time, energy, resources, gifts, and material possessions in the service of God’s love? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #13
Mar 18, 2025: Be alert to how 'way opens.' It may be revealed through a door closing. — New England Yearly Meeting #11
Mar 17, 2025: Are your meetings for church affairs held in a spirit of worship and in dependence on the guidance of God? Remember that we do not seek a majority …
Mar 17, 2025: Rejoice in the presence of children and young people in your meeting and recognise the gifts they bring. Remember that the meeting as a whole shares a …
Mar 16, 2025: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Mar 16, 2025: Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to …
Mar 15, 2025: Do you use your time, energy, resources, gifts, and material possessions in the service of God’s love? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #13
Mar 15, 2025: How does Truth prosper among you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #1
Mar 14, 2025: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Mar 14, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Mar 13, 2025: Ground your spiritual life in your own experience of the Divine. Speak and act from that experience. — New England Yearly Meeting #6
Mar 13, 2025: Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for …
Mar 12, 2025: Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit? All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our …
Mar 11, 2025: Attend to the Spirit at work in the ordinary activities and experiences of your daily life. There is inspiration to be found all around us, in the …
Mar 11, 2025: Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act. — New England Yearly Meeting #8
Mar 10, 2025: Remember that love is a gift of the Divine, not simply a human emotion. As imperfect human beings we are not always able to feel loving toward one …
Mar 9, 2025: Rejoice in the presence of children and young people in your meeting and recognise the gifts they bring. Remember that the meeting as a whole shares a …
Mar 9, 2025: Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgments about the life journeys of others. Do you …
Mar 8, 2025: Ground your spiritual life in your own experience of the Divine. Speak and act from that experience. — New England Yearly Meeting #6
Mar 8, 2025: Are you honest and truthful in all you say and do? Do you maintain strict integrity in business transactions and in your dealings with individuals and …
Mar 7, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Mar 7, 2025: How does your faith relate to the Christian heritage of the Religious Society of Friends? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #8
Mar 6, 2025: Deny the distractions. Follow only God. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #13
Mar 6, 2025: Attend to the Spirit at work in the ordinary activities and experiences of your daily life. There is inspiration to be found all around us, in the …
Mar 5, 2025: Do you take part as often as you can in meetings for church affairs? Are you familiar enough with our church government to contribute to its …
Mar 5, 2025: To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
Mar 4, 2025: Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities. Responding to divine guidance, try to discern the right time to undertake or relinquish …
Mar 4, 2025: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Mar 3, 2025: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Mar 3, 2025: Do not assume that vocal ministry is never to be your part. Faithfulness and sincerity in speaking, even very briefly, may open the way to fuller …
Mar 2, 2025: We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the …
Mar 2, 2025: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Mar 1, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Mar 1, 2025: Be alert to how 'way opens.' It may be revealed through a door closing. — New England Yearly Meeting #11
Feb 28, 2025: Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on …
Feb 28, 2025: Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and …
Feb 27, 2025: Do you take part as often as you can in meetings for church affairs? Are you familiar enough with our church government to contribute to its …
Feb 27, 2025: Do you give sufficient time to sharing with others in the meeting, both newcomers and long-time members, your understanding of worship, of service, …
Feb 26, 2025: Bring into God’s light those emotions, attitudes and prejudices in yourself which lie at the root of destructive conflict, acknowledging your need for …
Feb 25, 2025: Consider which of the ways to happiness offered by society are truly fulfilling and which are potentially corrupting and destructive. Be …
Feb 25, 2025: Evangelize. Spread the good news. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #3
Feb 24, 2025: Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as the leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and …
Feb 24, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Feb 23, 2025: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Feb 23, 2025: Do you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family and household, not forgetting your own? Try to make your home a place of loving …
Feb 22, 2025: Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. …
Feb 22, 2025: How does your faith relate to the Christian heritage of the Religious Society of Friends? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #8
Feb 21, 2025: Are you ready to respond to any concern God may lay upon you, large or small? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #14
Feb 21, 2025: Be aware of the spirit of God at work in the ordinary activities and experience of your daily life. Spiritual learning continues throughout life, and …
Feb 20, 2025: Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Feb 20, 2025: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Feb 19, 2025: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Feb 19, 2025: Attend to what love requires of you. — New England Yearly Meeting #16
Feb 18, 2025: Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New …
Feb 18, 2025: Do your work. Call others to do theirs. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #7
Feb 17, 2025: Respect the laws of the state but let your first loyalty be to God’s purposes. If you feel impelled by strong conviction to break the law, search your …
Feb 17, 2025: Consider which of the ways to happiness offered by society are truly fulfilling and which are potentially corrupting and destructive. Be …
Feb 16, 2025: What do Jesus’ life and ministry mean to you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #9
Feb 16, 2025: Let your life speak. — New England Yearly Meeting #14
Feb 15, 2025: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Feb 15, 2025: Do you work gladly with other religious groups in the pursuit of common goals? While remaining faithful to Quaker insights, try to enter imaginatively …
Feb 14, 2025: Consider which of the ways to happiness offered by society are truly fulfilling and which are potentially corrupting and destructive. Be …
Feb 14, 2025: Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Feb 13, 2025: Do you listen for the Spirit even when the words are foreign to you? Is your own understanding of God enriched by other people’s experiences of the …
Feb 13, 2025: Read the Bible. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #9
Feb 12, 2025: Remember your responsibilities as a citizen for the conduct of local, national, and international affairs. Do not shrink from the time and effort your …
Feb 12, 2025: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Feb 11, 2025: Abandon your forms when they do not fulfill God’s will. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #5
Feb 10, 2025: If pressure is brought upon you to lower your standard of integrity, are you prepared to resist it? Our responsibilities to God and our neighbour may …
Feb 9, 2025: Attend to what love requires of you. — New England Yearly Meeting #16
Feb 9, 2025: Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit? All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our …
Feb 8, 2025: Do you listen for the Spirit even when the words are foreign to you? Is your own understanding of God enriched by other people’s experiences of the …
Feb 8, 2025: Be grateful for the gifts you have. Neither be too proud of them nor value them too little. Do not waste time coveting the gifts of others. — New …
Feb 7, 2025: Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for …
Feb 7, 2025: To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
Feb 6, 2025: When you are preoccupied and distracted in meeting let wayward and disturbing thoughts give way quietly to your awareness of God’s presence among us …
Feb 6, 2025: We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars’. Do you faithfully maintain our testimony that …
Feb 5, 2025: Talk about your spiritual journey explicitly. Find words for that which is hard or strange. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #2
Feb 5, 2025: Do you listen for the Spirit even when the words are foreign to you? Is your own understanding of God enriched by other people’s experiences of the …
Feb 4, 2025: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Feb 4, 2025: Be alert to how 'way opens.' It may be revealed through a door closing. — New England Yearly Meeting #11
Feb 3, 2025: Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act. — New England Yearly Meeting #8
Feb 3, 2025: What does love require of you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #16
Feb 2, 2025: Ground your spiritual life in your own experience of the Divine. Speak and act from that experience. — New England Yearly Meeting #6
Feb 2, 2025: Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to …
Feb 1, 2025: Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as the leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and …
Feb 1, 2025: Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to …
Jan 31, 2025: Do you uphold those who are acting under concern, even if their way is not yours? Can you lay aside your own wishes and prejudices while seeking with …
Jan 31, 2025: Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action grounded in God’s truth. — New England Yearly Meeting …
Jan 30, 2025: Know who you are spiritually, and trust God to know where you are going. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #12
Jan 30, 2025: Do you allow the Inward Teacher to work in you? Are you teachable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #3
Jan 29, 2025: Find in your faith things to live humbly by and to die for. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #6
Jan 29, 2025: Let your life speak. — New England Yearly Meeting #14
Jan 28, 2025: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Jan 28, 2025: What do Jesus’ life and ministry mean to you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #9
Jan 27, 2025: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Jan 27, 2025: Attend to the Spirit at work in the ordinary activities and experiences of your daily life. There is inspiration to be found all around us, in the …
Jan 26, 2025: Do you cherish your friendships, so that they grow in depth and understanding and mutual respect? In close relationships we may risk pain as well as …
Jan 26, 2025: Let your life speak. — New England Yearly Meeting #14
Jan 25, 2025: Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on …
Jan 25, 2025: No one human being or group has the full measure of the Light. Seek to understand the experience of those whose theology and practices differ from …
Jan 24, 2025: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Jan 24, 2025: With your sins and the sins of your parents: admit them, repent them, heal the wounds. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #8
Jan 23, 2025: Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Jan 23, 2025: "You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and …
Jan 22, 2025: Love boldly. Share deeply. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #14
Jan 22, 2025: Know who you are spiritually, and trust God to know where you are going. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #12
Jan 21, 2025: Humbly seek out that of God in the way others live, and find what’s deeply right in it. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #1
Jan 21, 2025: Do not fear periods of doubt and questions; they may lead to openings. — New England Yearly Meeting #3
Jan 20, 2025: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Jan 20, 2025: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Jan 19, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Jan 19, 2025: Every stage of our lives offers fresh opportunities. Responding to divine guidance, try to discern the right time to undertake or relinquish …
Jan 18, 2025: Is every aspect of your life open to the transforming power of God? What stands in the way? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #4
Jan 18, 2025: Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and …
Jan 17, 2025: Love boldly. Share deeply. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #14
Jan 17, 2025: Do you allow the Inward Teacher to work in you? Are you teachable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #3
Jan 16, 2025: Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit? All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our …
Jan 16, 2025: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Jan 15, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Jan 15, 2025: Deny the distractions. Follow only God. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #13
Jan 14, 2025: What do Jesus’ life and ministry mean to you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #9
Jan 14, 2025: Do you work gladly with other religious groups in the pursuit of common goals? While remaining faithful to Quaker insights, try to enter imaginatively …
Jan 13, 2025: Never be absolutely sure that you are right. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #4
Jan 13, 2025: Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Trust them as the leadings of God whose Light shows us our darkness and …
Jan 12, 2025: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Jan 12, 2025: Do you take part as often as you can in meetings for church affairs? Are you familiar enough with our church government to contribute to its …
Jan 11, 2025: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Jan 11, 2025: To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
Jan 10, 2025: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Jan 10, 2025: Face your fears and your powerlessness. Have faith. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #11
Jan 9, 2025: Are you able to contemplate your death and the death of those closest to you? Accepting the fact of death, we are freed to live more fully. In …
Jan 9, 2025: Do you give sufficient time to sharing with others in the meeting, both newcomers and long-time members, your understanding of worship, of service, …
Jan 8, 2025: Trust that the Inner Light can lead us beyond our individual perceptions and desires into action grounded in God’s truth. — New England Yearly Meeting …
Jan 8, 2025: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Jan 7, 2025: Marriage has always been regarded by Friends as a religious commitment rather than a merely civil contract. Both partners should offer with God’s help …
Jan 7, 2025: Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New …
Jan 6, 2025: Make space in your daily life for communion with God and for spiritual nurture through prayer, reading, meditation, and other disciplines which open …
Jan 6, 2025: Let your life speak. — New England Yearly Meeting #14
Jan 5, 2025: Respect the laws of the state but let your first loyalty be to God’s purposes. If you feel impelled by strong conviction to break the law, search your …
Jan 5, 2025: Children and young people need love and stability. Are we doing all we can to uphold and sustain parents and others who carry the responsibility for …
Jan 4, 2025: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Jan 4, 2025: Are your meetings for church affairs held in a spirit of worship and in dependence on the guidance of God? Remember that we do not seek a majority …
Jan 3, 2025: Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New …
Jan 3, 2025: Attend to the Spirit at work in the ordinary activities and experiences of your daily life. There is inspiration to be found all around us, in the …
Jan 2, 2025: The Religious Society of Friends is rooted in Christianity and has always found inspiration in the life and teachings of Jesus. How do you interpret …
Jan 2, 2025: To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
Jan 1, 2025: Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgments about the life journeys of others. Do you …
Jan 1, 2025: Do you work gladly with other religious groups in the pursuit of common goals? While remaining faithful to Quaker insights, try to enter imaginatively …
Dec 31, 2024: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Dec 31, 2024: Do you welcome the diversity of culture, language and expressions of faith in our yearly meeting and in the world community of Friends? Seek to …
Dec 30, 2024: Seek to lead others to Truth through love. Let us teach by being ourselves teachable. We are all humble learners in the school of Christ. — New …
Dec 30, 2024: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Dec 29, 2024: How does your faith relate to the Christian heritage of the Religious Society of Friends? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #8
Dec 29, 2024: With your sins and the sins of your parents: admit them, repent them, heal the wounds. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #8
Dec 28, 2024: Are your meetings for church affairs held in a spirit of worship and in dependence on the guidance of God? Remember that we do not seek a majority …
Dec 28, 2024: Respect the wide diversity among us in our lives and relationships. Refrain from making prejudiced judgments about the life journeys of others. Do you …
Dec 27, 2024: What calls us into a Religious Society? Do we grow together in faithfulness? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #11
Dec 27, 2024: Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Dec 26, 2024: A long-term relationship brings tensions as well as fulfilment. If your relationship with your partner is under strain, seek help in understanding the …
Dec 26, 2024: No one human being or group has the full measure of the Light. Seek to understand the experience of those whose theology and practices differ from …
Dec 25, 2024: Respect the laws of the state but let your first loyalty be to God’s purposes. If you feel impelled by strong conviction to break the law, search your …
Dec 25, 2024: Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and …
Dec 24, 2024: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Dec 24, 2024: Know who you are spiritually, and trust God to know where you are going. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #12
Dec 23, 2024: Bring the whole of your life under the ordering of the spirit of Christ. Are you open to the healing power of God’s love? Cherish that of God within …
Dec 23, 2024: Talk about your spiritual journey explicitly. Find words for that which is hard or strange. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #2
Dec 22, 2024: Do you recognise the needs and gifts of each member of your family and household, not forgetting your own? Try to make your home a place of loving …
Dec 22, 2024: Do you respect that of God in everyone though it may be expressed in unfamiliar ways or be difficult to discern? Each of us has a particular …
Dec 21, 2024: Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others in expectant waiting we may discover a deeper sense …
Dec 21, 2024: Never be absolutely sure that you are right. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #4
Dec 20, 2024: Remember that love is a gift of the Divine, not simply a human emotion. As imperfect human beings we are not always able to feel loving toward one …
Dec 20, 2024: Seek to lead others to Truth through love. Let us teach by being ourselves teachable. We are all humble learners in the school of Christ. — New …
Dec 19, 2024: The Religious Society of Friends is rooted in Christianity and has always found inspiration in the life and teachings of Jesus. How do you interpret …
Dec 19, 2024: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Dec 18, 2024: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Dec 18, 2024: Humbly seek out that of God in the way others live, and find what’s deeply right in it. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #1
Dec 17, 2024: What does love require of you? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #16
Dec 17, 2024: Humbly seek out that of God in the way others live, and find what’s deeply right in it. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #1
Dec 16, 2024: Are you honest and truthful in all you say and do? Do you maintain strict integrity in business transactions and in your dealings with individuals and …
Dec 16, 2024: Live adventurously. When choices arise, do you take the way that offers the fullest opportunity for the use of your gifts in the service of God and …
Dec 15, 2024: Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on …
Dec 15, 2024: After a bout of COVID, about ready to find some time for 3 enhancements to the site. 1- currently it loads a random advice each time. I think it …
Dec 15, 2024: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Dec 14, 2024: Make space in your daily life for communion with God and for spiritual nurture through prayer, reading, meditation, and other disciplines which open …
Dec 14, 2024: Do your work. Call others to do theirs. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #7
Dec 13, 2024: We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the …
Dec 13, 2024: Deny the distractions. Follow only God. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #13
Dec 12, 2024: With your sins and the sins of your parents: admit them, repent them, heal the wounds. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #8
Dec 12, 2024: Be alert to how 'way opens.' It may be revealed through a door closing. — New England Yearly Meeting #11
Dec 11, 2024: Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. …
Dec 11, 2024: Come regularly to meeting for worship even when you are angry, depressed, tired or spiritually cold. In the silence ask for and accept the prayerful …
Dec 10, 2024: The Religious Society of Friends is rooted in Christianity and has always found inspiration in the life and teachings of Jesus. How do you interpret …
Dec 9, 2024: Are you alert to practices here and throughout the world which discriminate against people on the basis of who or what they are or because of their …
Dec 9, 2024: Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Dec 8, 2024: Make space in your daily life for communion with God and for spiritual nurture through prayer, reading, meditation, and other disciplines which open …
Dec 8, 2024: We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars’. Do you faithfully maintain our testimony that …
Dec 7, 2024: How can we make the meeting a community in which each person is accepted and nurtured, and strangers are welcome? Seek to know one another in the …
Dec 7, 2024: Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Dec 6, 2024: We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars’. Do you faithfully maintain our testimony that …
Dec 5, 2024: Take time to learn about other people’s experiences of the Light. Remember the importance of the Bible, the writings of Friends and all writings which …
Dec 5, 2024: Never be absolutely sure that you are right. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #4
Dec 4, 2024: Are your meetings for church affairs held in a spirit of worship and in dependence on the guidance of God? Remember that we do not seek a majority …
Dec 4, 2024: Worship is our response to an awareness of God. We can worship alone, but when we join with others in expectant waiting we may discover a deeper sense …
Dec 3, 2024: Do you recognize divinely inspired insight? Can you distinguish between divine leadings and your own needs or desires? — New England Yearly Meeting …
Dec 3, 2024: Make space in your daily life for communion with God and for spiritual nurture through prayer, reading, meditation, and other disciplines which open …
Dec 2, 2024: Be alert to how 'way opens.' It may be revealed through a door closing. — New England Yearly Meeting #11
Dec 2, 2024: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Dec 1, 2024: Do not fear periods of doubt and questions; they may lead to openings. — New England Yearly Meeting #3
Dec 1, 2024: Examine your leadings through a process of discernment to determine whether or not they are grounded in the Spirit. Test your discernment with your …
Nov 30, 2024: Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on …
Nov 30, 2024: If pressure is brought upon you to lower your standard of integrity, are you prepared to resist it? Our responsibilities to God and our neighbour may …
Nov 29, 2024: Attend to what love requires of you. — New England Yearly Meeting #16
Nov 29, 2024: Try to live simply. A simple lifestyle freely chosen is a source of strength. Do not be persuaded into buying what you do not need or cannot afford. …
Nov 28, 2024: Do you use your time, energy, resources, gifts, and material possessions in the service of God’s love? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #13
Nov 28, 2024: Approach old age with courage and hope. As far as possible, make arrangements for your care in good time, so that an undue burden does not fall on …
Nov 27, 2024: To whom or to what are you accountable? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #7
Nov 27, 2024: Are you ready to respond to any concern God may lay upon you, large or small? — New England Yearly Meeting Queries #14
Nov 26, 2024: Do you maintain an appropriate balance among work, service, worship, family, and recreation? Are you ready to rest if God asks it of you? — New …
Nov 26, 2024: Rejoice in the presence of children and young people in your meeting and recognise the gifts they bring. Remember that the meeting as a whole shares a …
Nov 25, 2024: Deny the distractions. Follow only God. — New England Yearly Meeting Young Adult Friends #13
Nov 24, 2024: Do you look for opportunities to deepen your understanding of the history and testimonies of the Religious Society of Friends? Do you inform yourself …
Nov 23, 2024: Stand still, wait for divine guidance, then act. — New England Yearly Meeting #8
Nov 23, 2024: BYM Advices 42 - we do not own the world We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the …
Nov 19, 2024: Let your life speak. New England Yearly Meeting #14
Nov 19, 2024: “Be honest with yourself. What unpalatable truths might you be evading? When you recognise your shortcomings, do not let that discourage you. In …
Nov 17, 2024: Test post 2
Nov 16, 2024: “Is every aspect of your life open to the transforming power of God? What stands in the way?” New England Yearly Meeting Queries #4
Nov 16, 2024: Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Seek to live in affection as true Friends in your meetings, in your …
Nov 11, 2024: “Are love and unity fostered among us? If differences arise, do we endeavor to reconcile them in a spirit of love and truth? Are we careful not …
Oct 12, 2024: Do not fear periods of doubt and questions; they may lead to openings. New England Yearly Meeting #3
Oct 12, 2024: Seek to lead others to Truth through love. Let us teach by being ourselves teachable. We are all humble learners in the school of Christ. New England …
Mar 3, 2024: Take heed, dear Friends, to the promptings of love and truth in your hearts. Seek to live in affection as true Friends in your meetings, in your …