Advices and Queries

‘Advices and queries are intended for use in Quaker meetings, for private devotion and reflection, as a challenge and inspiration to us as Friends in our personal lives and in our life as a religious community, and as a concise expression of our faith and practice for enquirers and the wider world.’             

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Advices and Queries for April

3.  Do you try to set aside times of quiet for openness to the Holy Spirit?  All of us need to find a way into silence which allows us to deepen our awareness of the divine and to find the inward source of our strength.  Seek to know an inward stillness, even amid the activities of daily life.  Do you encourage in yourself and in others a habit of dependence on God’s guidance for each day?  Hold yourself and others in the Light, knowing that all are cherished by God.

4.  The Religious Society of Friends is rooted in Christianity and has always found inspiration in the life and teachings of Jesus.  How do you interpret your faith in the light of this heritage?  How does Jesus speak to you today?  Are you following Jesus’ example of love in action?  Are you learning from his life the reality and cost of obedience to God?  How does his relationship with God challenge and inspire you?