Our Life Is Love

“Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another; but praying one for another, and helping one another up with a tender hand, if there has been any slip or fall.”

— Isaac Penington, 1667
Early English Quaker writer

Today’s Invitation

Be open to offering or receiving the tender hand of help.

This Week’s Query

What are your challenges to seeing that of God in everyone?

What practices help you overcome these challenges?

Share your response!

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  • Isaac Penington (1616–1679) was one of the early members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in England. He wrote about the Quaker movement and was an influential promoter and defender of it.

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