April 2024: What is the purpose of cultivating a spiritual practice, and how do we do it? This month explores Quaker answers to these questions, and insights into how prayer and contemplation take many forms, from reading scripture, to drawing, to walking in nature.
“The journey begins with longing, a desire for greater intimacy with God. This longing is experienced in many different ways, often as a heartfelt yearning for connection with God, or the need to be obedient to the divine will. Sometimes it manifests as dissatisfaction with the religious beliefs or practices in which one has been raised, or in dissatisfaction with the ways of the world.”
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