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| Wild peonies from a recent visit to RantMom |
Confession Time!
Are you overachieving as far as things to confess about?
Why confess only once?
Here, slightly expanded, are thoughts that came to RantWoman during a recent Worship Sharing.
Among the traditional testimonies of Friends - SPICES (Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality, Stewardship)
– Which speak to you the most?
-- Which are hardest or most challenging for you?
RantWoman is bad at all of them
Does one flunk simplicity if one refuses to collapse an entire faith tradition into six words?
Equality: people of privilege have EXPECTATIONS (including me) But it's a challenge to community when there is too much expectation around equality.
Integrity when inconvenient truths fall out of one's mouth, this can, um, stress community.
RantWoman will find it too easy to disturb peace with an argument about whether peace and community are redundant.
Stewardship? RantWoman is challenged about managing her own household. The cat does not consider maid service part of the bargain. And all of this before RantWoman leaves her house and interacts with Life Issues such as Transportation.
RantWoman, STOP. Just stick up for practices such as daily prayer or shared worship. DO NOT try to fit all or Quakerism into one post.
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