for 16 October, 2022 Quarterly Meeting
Grounding for Transformed Lives: Peace and Alternatives to Violence
- How do we help each other face conflicts with patience, forbearance and openness to healing?
- To what extent does our meeting ignore differences in order to avoid possible conflicts?
- What are we doing as a Friends meeting within our communities:
- 1) To recognize and correct the causes of violence?
- 2) To understand the impact of the global military-industrial complex on all aspects of life?
- 3) To increase the understanding and use of alternatives to violence?
- 4) To work toward overcoming separations and restoring wholeness?
- 5) To support the constructive use of authority?
- 6) To promote the sustainability of the earth?
- Do I “live in the virtue [power] of that Life and Spirit that took [takes] away the occasion of all wars”?
- How do I maintain Friends’ testimony that participation in war and its preparation is inconsistent with the teaching of Jesus?
- Do I treat personal conflict as an opportunity for growth?
- How do I face my differences with others and reaffirm in action and attitude my love for those with whom I am in conflict?
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