Entries from December 1, 2006 - January 1, 2007
Meeting for Worship; Meeting for Business
Posted on Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 08:00PM
by
Marshall Massey
in Mechanics of Quakerism
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Marshall Massey
in Mechanics of Quakerism
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13 Comments
The very act of waiting, as a waiter waits on a customer, or a courtier on a king, is practice in setting aside one’s own ideas and opinions and learning to serve. Six months of hour-long waiting worship twice a week is the sort of intensive training in setting aside one’s self and learning to serve, that can change a person visibly. Six months of hour-long sitting in silence twice a week, seeking for truth and reality, may never once take a person beyond thinking that he knows the truth better than anyone else around him.