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A meditation: “On the evening of the 18th I was at their meeting, where pure gospel love was felt, to the tendering of some of our hearts. The interpreters endeavoured to acquaint the people with what I said, in short sentences, but found some difficulty, as none of them were quite perfect in the English and Delaware tongues, so they helped one another, and we laboured along, divine love attending. Afterwards, feeling my mind covered with the spirit of prayer, I told the interpreters that I found it in my heart to pray to God, and believed, if I prayed aright He would hear me; and I expressed my willingness for them to omit interpreting; so our meeting ended with a degree of divine love. Before the people went out, I observed Papunehang (the man who had been zealous in labouring for a reformation in that town, being then very tender) speaking to one of the interpreters, and I was afterwards told that he said in substance as follows: — ‘I love to feel where words come from.’” —John Woolman’s Journal, Chapter VIII, 1762

Do I listen with the open heart of Papunehang, or do I judge and assume and presume? Am I open to God’s lesson where ever it comes from, or can I only hear those who talk like me, think like me, see like me? Bend me, Divine Teacher, to your will. Help me listen to your word no matter where it comes from, no matter the words used, no matter the voice. Help me listen when it comes from the other, the stranger. Help me when it comes from my sister and my brother. —cdw

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