Assume You’ll Be Needed Today

Melt Like Butter

Leave yourself out
to soften.
Assume you’ll be needed
today.

Assume you’ll need
to be soft
and ready.

Lord, prepare me.

O God
prepare us
O God be
gentle and warm
to transform
but not
to burn.

Let us melt each other.

When we are brittle let us not break
but be softened.

— Maggie Fiori, 2022
“Melt Like Butter”

Write a few lines about what it means to you to be “soft and ready.” What can you do to prepare yourself for how you’ll be needed today?

What is your process for centering in worship?

What does “centered-ness” mean to you? What does it feel like when you reach a centered state?

Author

Maeve Sutherland

Maeve Sutherland is a communications professional who never recovered from her wonderful childhood at a Quaker elementary school. She has spent her career helping nonprofits share their stories, from schools and universities, to museums, to radio stations. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Maeve spent a year living in “Peaceable Kingdoms,” pacifist intentional communities around the world, where she learned that everyone has a role to play in shaping a better world. She worked as a freelance social media manager before joining Thee Quaker Project. After returning to Quakerism as a young adult, Maeve now attends Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia.
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