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If you've ever wondering what it's like being a Quaker but specifically being a Quaker in my brain I have a moment about 2-3 times a day minimum where ill be doing something random and probably fun or quiet (or not, maybe it's really loud) and my thoughts and such will stop dead in their tracks and I will take a hard 180° and start to think about how there's this light inside every human that makes them inherently interesting and beautiful and equal and good, or how silence comes from all around us and the joy of just sitting in the sunlight of creation, or how people are some of the most beautiful things to ever exist and how grateful I am to get to experience us, or the importance and wonder of the natural world and all of creation and the necessity of fighting to protect it, or how queer people are holy and sacred in our own little ways or the injustices of the world and how oppressively horrible they are but also that that's why hope and fighting and seeing a better world is so important.
And on and on and on. And then I'll go back to like making brownies or doing maths homework or something.
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bi-accident · 7 months
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Broiled humdingers - 1967
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luminousfire · 5 months
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God is not merely sympathetic to our suffering. God is empathetic, compassionate. He suffers with us. That, for me, is the meaning of the incarnation. Likewise, we add to the enjoyment of God in our joys and successes. We feel with God as God feels with us.
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emohorseboy · 3 months
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transgenderism isn’t an ideology it’s a gift from God actually
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friendinstrument · 2 months
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God's wisdom is not constrained to one faith.
He lives in all of his believers, and imparts truth to all of us. Just as we all are blessed with the inward light, whether believer or not, we are all blessed with the light's guidance. The thing is to listen to it- listen to the voice of goodness.
It is from this that good comes from not just God's christians, but his muslims, his jewish children, his atheist children, his pagan children, his buddhist and filian and all of his other children.
Learn to recognize that God's work and his love comes from all, and goes to all.
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bayoubluebirb · 2 months
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Kermit hates everything. Kermit is biting your blog.
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novamonastica · 9 months
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Nearly everyone believes God is loving, but there is considerable debate over the width, length, hight and depth of his love. For many, God's love is limited and conditional, offered to some but not others... Grace is God's commitment to love us regardless.
If God is Love by Philip Gulley and Jame Mulholland
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madronash · 11 months
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Tag yourself or name your next oc
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Benjamin West and his cat Grimalkin (1947) written by Marguerite Henry, illustrated by Wesley Dennis
Original title page by me! See this post for the first edition title page
@antiqueanimals
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theinwardlight · 8 months
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c86 · 6 months
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Quaker food products, c. 1960s
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flock-talk · 1 year
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this is my bird’s designated bath bowl. she refuses to bathe any other way. she loves this bowl. thought you might enjoy the roundness, i certainly do.
I cannot get over how round this baby is
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bi-accident · 7 months
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Anzak biscuits - ~1918
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luminousfire · 8 months
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As a part of seeing the light of God in everyone, I believe that we Quakers have things to learn from all spiritual paths. Likewise, I believe that all may benefit from ours. Furthermore, I believe that we already hold in common many core principles.
I have learned to appreciate process, eventually moving towards process theology, from my Buddhist and Daoist friends.
I have learned about the multifaceted nature of God and that there are many equally valid paths to God from my Hindu friends.
I have learned a great deal about interpretation of the Hebrew Bible and repairing the world from my Jewish friends.
I have learned about other views of Jesus, as well as the gift of regular prayer and outward expression of faith from my Muslim friends.
I have learned about the necessity to question my faith from my agnostic and atheist friends.
Religious pluralism is important. I am not the arbiter of truth. I do not have unique access to the all-encompassing truth. People of all paths are my friends.
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pbscore · 4 months
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🏳️‍⚧️🕯️🕊️ Bless the trans angels who have returned to their home in the sky. Although you were lost in this life, you shall be born again in another and (hopefully) more peaceful place.
Thank you for having blessed us with your presence and giving us the opportunity to meet you. We will be united again one day and I pray for the wellbeing of those you loved while you were here.
To my trans friends still alive and trying their best everyday to get by:
Remember that you are loved and you are seen and you have every right to exist as you are. You have so much to see and so much to experience. Hope is a hard feeling to keep alive during wayward times but it is important to remember how powerful it can be when we keep it alive as a community.
Please, take care of yourselves and watch out for one another. The world is in a series of so many changes and it can be easy to get lost in the fray. Remember who you are and what you want your purpose to be in this life!
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cerealkiller740 · 22 days
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1966 Quaker Oats Oatmeal advertisement
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