Some Hearts Are Only Reached by Motherly Counsels
“In Friends’ meetings also, from the fact that everyone is free to speak, one hears harmonies and correspondences between very various utterances such as are scarcely to be met elsewhere. It is sometimes as part-singing compared with unison. The free admission of the ministry of women, of course, greatly enriches this harmony. I have often wondered whether some of the motherly counsels I have listened to in our meeting would not reach some hearts that might be closed to the masculine preacher.”
— Caroline E Stephen, 1890
Quaker writer and philanthropist
Today’s Invitation
Celebrate the unique ways your gender identity enriches your spiritual gifts.
This Week’s Query
When have you been spiritually “mothered” or “mothered” others?
Do you believe caregiving has an inherent spiritual quality?
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