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Weekly Devotional and Prayer requests from FUM
September 12-18, 2008
Death is but Crossing the World,
as Friends do the Seas;
They live in one another still.
For they must needs be present,
that love and live in that which is Omnipresent.
In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face;
and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure.
And this is the Comfort of the Good,
that the Grave cannot hold them,
and that they live as soon as they die.
For Death is no more than a Turning of us over
from Time to Eternity.
Nor can there be a Revolution without it;
for it supposes the Dissolution of one form,
in order to the Succession of another.
Death then, being the Way and Condition of Life,
we cannot love to live, if we cannot bear to die.
They that love beyond the World,
cannot be separated by it.
Death cannot kill what never dies.
Nor can Spirits ever be divided
that love and live in the same Divine Principle…
If Absence be not death, neither is theirs.
—William Penn, abstracted from Some Fruits of Solitude, 1682
- Join the Ramallah Friends School in mourning the loss of two members of the school community. Two weeks ago, Aida Karkar died suddenly after 33 years of teaching on the day before her retirement began. This week Osma Bistawi, a new second grade student, was hit by a car and did not survive the accident. It is a sad start for the school year indeed; may their souls rest in peace. Please hold them, their families, the teachers and Osama's schoolmates in prayer.
- Pray for Cuban Friends dealing the aftermath and devastation caused by Hurricane Ike.
- Friends In Peace And Community Development, an NGO, is hosting the International Gathering of the Alternatives to Violence Programme (AVP) will gather from 14th-20th September 2008. There will be 110 participants from 22 countries at Bishop Nicholas Stam Pastoral Center in Kakamega, Kenya. Please hold those traveling and the sessions of the conference in the light of God.