Appreciations via the bulletin

RantWoman is led to reflect on moments when she feels listened to and well-woven into as wella s deeply grateful for the  work of her Meeting. Three items from this week’s weekly bulletin come to mind.

 

Discernment and Transportation

There is an item about the Neighborhood Street Fund, a city program that encourages neighbors to propose and then help prioritize transportation projects. The Fund has a 3-year cycle and there is a link interested readers can visit, public events people can attend, and more background. RantWoman wrote a different announcement and is glad someone expanded some pieces, even though the result is typographically uneven. RantWoman is also vexed because this announcement references ongoing evolution of transportation around Meeting, part of the environment where the community has some discernment tasks to be working carefully if slowly at. RantWoman humbly notes the community-building aspects of going through such changes together. RantWoman has further thoughts which deserve their own posts, but she is very glad someone else is also being faithful to Light about the importance of paying attention to transportation projects in our neighborhood.

 

 

Ministry presented at Adult Religious Education

• Feb 24 University Friends Meeting has recognized (a member of Meeting’s) ministry in Kenya to improve the lives of Quakers and other Kenyans through preventive health education.

Friend N will share information about the work so far, her goals for the future, and her leading

to follow this ministry.

1. RantWoman recalls being a bit of a pest when Friend N started talking of the connections and leadings she was seasoning. Friend N at first thought not to request any specific designation. RantWoman probably was not the only one being fairly insistent about the importance of asking for Meeting’s support. RantWoman wishes Friend N blessings on her journey and is very glad to help send along Meeting’s support
    
2. RantWoman notes with appreciation Friends’ efforts over a number of years to have a clear process for supporting ministries. RantWoman was called very clearly to be true to her Light about seasoning a previous ministry. RantWoman is happy to elaborate but for the time being will simply recall a moment from the Business meeting that approved the ministry. RantWoman was very clear that she was going to be called to speak. RantWoman heard pieces that she considered important even though she realized that probably few others in the room recognized their significance. When she rose to speak of the ministry, RantWoman was surprised about how clearly concern for future work and future ministers came out of her mouth. RantWoman is also humbled by the absence in her message of some angry thoughts which somehow had subsided.

 

Putting our Library catalogue online:

Mid-project notice: Online library catalogue project. We are 1/3 of the way to putting our book collection online! We urgently still need volunteers – multiple work party sessions have been scheduled – Feb 24, and Mar 2 so far. Please consider signing up here: (link omitted) You’ll be oriented by a Library Committee member at the start of the session. IMPORTANT: please bring your own laptop for scheduled session or coordinate library computer access ahead of time. Please contact (names omitted.) Sneak peek at our collection available at (link)

1. RantWoman has no idea whether some thoughts in an email about the uniqueness of some parts of our collection and other thoughts about the internet are part of the impetus for Friends to take up this project but RantWoman is VERY glad it is occurring.
2. Typing and interacting with a lot of print, basically anything but the large print Bible now safely catalogued is kind of a challenge zone for RantWoman. That personal ache in now way diminishes RantWoman’s appreciation of the importance of the project.

More appreciations due; not tonight.