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.”

— Elias Hicks, 1816
Quaker traveling minister

Today’s Invitation

Invite humility and embrace it.

This Week’s Query

Who are you trying to impress?

Share your response!

Read the source of today’s quote

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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  • Elias Hicks (1748 – 1830) was a traveling Quaker minister from Long Island, New York. In his ministry he promoted doctrines deemed unorthodox by many which led to lasting controversy, and caused the second major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. Elias Hicks was the older cousin of the painter Edward Hicks.

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