Give Over Desiring to Know or to Be Anything

“Small Treasure to a resigned Mind is sufficient. How happy is it to be content with a little, to live in Humility.”

— John Woolman, 1768
Quaker traveling minister and abolitionist

Today’s Invitation

Wait with confidence for the raising of the true seed of life.

This Week’s Query

Who are you trying to impress?

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Paul Buckley is a member of Clear Creek Friends Meeting in Richmond, Indiana. For the last 40 years, he has traveled extensively among North American Friends offering a variety of workshops, seminars, retreats, and short courses. He has published books and articles on Quaker history, faith, and practice. His most recent publication is a Pendle Hill pamphlet, Teach Us to Pray.

On Wednesday afternoons for the last five years, he has sent a Midweek Meditation (a short Quaker quote) by email to a couple hundred Friends around the world. To be added to the distribution list, send him an email (bucklpa@earlham.edu).

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  • John Woolman (October 19, 1720 – October 7, 1772) was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era. Based in Mount Holly, near Philadelphia, he traveled through the American frontier to preach Quaker beliefs, and advocate against slavery and the slave trade, cruelty to animals, economic injustices and oppression, and conscription.

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