Our Life is Love: the Quaker Spiritual Journey
Marcelle Martin's book, Our Life is Love: The Quaker Spiritual Journey, explores ten elements of the spiritual experience of Quakers, both in the 17th century and in our time. It makes a great resource for study groups who want to explore these elements of spiritual experience in our own lives. Available from Inner Light Books. For more information, go to the Publications page. * * * * * * * * Marcelle is available to lead workshops and retreats and to give talks. See the Teaching and Upcoming Workshops page to learn more.-
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Tag Archives: faithfulness
The Light That Shines in the Darkness
On a dark, starry night, in a year of whole-hearted seeking, inner senses opened and divine Reality was suddenly revealed. I experienced a Light that flows through everything and a Power that can heal anything. Continue reading
Posted in All of Life is Sacred, Contemplative spirituality, Facing Life with Faith, Mysticism, Quaker Faith Today, Radical Christianity, spiritual practices
Tagged awareness, collective spiritual practices, concepts of God, consciousness, divine Power, Existentialists, faithfulness, God, inner senses, John 1:5, Mysticism, Oneness, Quakers, Reality, revelation, Spirit-led, spiritual practices, the Light, transformation of consciousness, ultimate truth
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We Work Through Prayer
For more than two and a half decades, I’ve held the intention of following God’s purpose–or will–for my life. And all of that time, I’ve struggled with a strong desire to do things my own way. When confronted with the … Continue reading
In Order to Give Our Gift
I pray that we Friends grow increasingly able, faithfully, to play our part in the birth of a new, more conscious, connected humanity, a birth now reaching a painful stage of labor. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends, Quaker Faith Today
Tagged catastrophe, dream, extinction, faithfulness, God, God's plan, liberal Friends, prayer, shift of consciousness, vision
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Perfection (in One’s Measure)
The first Quakers did not want to postpone perfect faithfulness until after death. They sought a surrendered life, a life in union with God. They experienced the Spirit of Christ within them, teaching them, step by step, how to become perfectly responsive to God’s will and free from the compulsion to sin. In doing so, they became joined with the Fountain of Love. Continue reading
Posted in Learning from Early Friends
Tagged Christ, Christian perfection, faithfulness, freedom from sin, George Fox, God, Isaac Penington, James Nayler, Matthew 5:48, perfection, purification, Quaker, Rebecca Travers, refiner's fire, Sarah Chevers, state of perfection, the Light, union with God
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Being Gathered into Community
After several years of mostly solitary and intensely inward spiritual experience, I began to worship with Quakers. At that time I dreamed I had been swimming laps in a big pool, developing strength, and now I was being put on … Continue reading
