A prayer for Quaker parents
“Heavenly Father, what precious burden have we dropped to one side in the midst of all our frantic running? Shall we save the world and lose the soul of one untended child? Let thy light shine through our every waking moment, that we and our children may know by whom and for what we are created. Spare us from the blasphemy of taking the weight of the world upon our shoulders.
Help us to lead our little ones to the true source of all being, as we have ourselves been led. And help us never to mistake action for understanding, busyness for concern, and agitation for love, lest through action, busyness and agitation we stand between our children and the living water from which they must come to drink of themselves….
We ask this in the name of one who knew both love and joy, and gladly shared them with children. Amen.”
— Elise Boulding, 1962
Quaker sociologist and writer
Today’s Invitation
Lead little ones to the true source of all being.
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