From practice.
I have, before, posted a section from Quaker Faith & Practice that I’ve found particularly moving. As part of my own discipline, which I purloined from Beth Allen’s book, I keep five bookmarks throughout QFP and read one selection from each page each day. (I also read from, The Unitarian Life edited by Stephen Lingwood, A Course in Miracles and, although not every day, the Bible).
After that brief intro, here is a part from QFP that I read today and have had to read several time. It is most wonderful in how it addresses worship:
All true worship is inspired by God. The place of worship is the place of dependence, the place of wonder and of power, the place of fellowship and of communion… Worship links us to God and implies faith in a God who is in some sense personal. Personality is the highest category we know and we cannot worship a Being who is less than the highest of which we conceive… Thus the act of worship presupposes on our part a sense of dependence on God and the acknowledgment of our need of him, and this means that the element of adoration and thanksgiving should always be present in worship. Worship in Christian experience is our response to the God of Love.
I’m working on the next full post, which will be about the senses.
Until then…Pax et bonum.
