God Yearns for You (with guest editor Paul Buckley)
May 26-June 1, 2025: This week’s messages are guest edited by Paul Buckley. Paul 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).
May 26, 2025
Give Over your Willing
“Hope can arise from places undreamed of. Hope is the intersection of the dreams of ordinary people and the promise of something new that permeates our tradition. Hope can carry a person through fear, past the very real dangers of this world, in ways I don’t pretend to understand.”
May 27, 2025
Give Over your Running
“Of course, we are still human, still flawed, and if our meetings are to be beloved communities we must learn to accept others as they are, not as we want them to be—to accept the opportunity to bear one another’s burdens…. We are reminded that forgiveness is not about justice; it is about healing.”
May 28, 2025
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.”
May 29, 2025
Sink Down to the Seed
“Dwell low in your minds, as it is only in the valley of humiliation that we can have fellowship with the Oppressed Seed.”
May 30, 2025
Let the Seed Grow in You and Be in You
“Oh! love truth and its Testimony, whether its Witness be to you, or against you, love it, that into my Mother’s house you all may come, and into the Chamber of her that conceived me, where you may embrace, and be embraced of my dearly beloved one, Love is his Name, Love is his Nature, Love is his life.”
