Concern for Quaker Living (CQL) helps our meetings to welcome and nurture a caring community of Friends in all stages of life, particularly the oldest Friends.
Query for May 25, 2026:
As I grow older, I seem to need more time for inner stillness…This can happen in the midst of daily chores or when walking in a crowd or riding in a train. It means being still, open, reflective, holding within myself the crucible of joy and pain of all the world, and lifting it up to God. Praise comes into it, and thankfulness for all the love I have known and shared, the realization of how much of the time I am carried, supported, upheld by others and the love of God. (During this process) comes the deep sense of unity of all being, the intermeshing of the animate and inanimate, the secular and the scared, the tangible and the intangible…it means just waiting, or just lifting the heart.”
— Dorothy Steere, 1995, PYM Faith and Practice, 2002
Does this resonate with you, or do you find this difficult to achieve, perhaps an aspirational goal rather than the everyday practice.
Do you find moments of unity?
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The Concern for Quaker Living (CQL) working group of New York Quarterly Meeting is focused in three threads: a housing feasibility study, the Community Wellness support services available to NYC Quakers, and the fostering of opportunities for us to be together as a Quarter. CQL is meeting the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at 6pm. Each meeting is on Zoom, although we hope to offer one hybrid meeting a month. All are welcome.
Zoom info:
Topic: CQL Committee Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8457685468?pwd=09rFhjDEpQHqb5QIjHwLIeVKoBhlXL.1&omn=85409495210
Meeting ID: 845 768 5468
Passcode: 570880
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