If it’s possible to prepare the way for ourselves to explore and be open to receiving God’s message, what does that mean for how we raise our children? Once we try to apply these techniques to another person, a key element of the process — our yearning to reach the Divine — is potentially lost.
Imagine that you walk up to an old wooden porch and into a church that’s just one large central room. As you enter, dozens of people are sitting in rows facing each other with their eyes closed and heads bowed. Everyone is quiet and the windows are open. You take a seat along the wall.
I’ve been thinking recently about religious habits. In part, that’s because as a Quaker I never had a strong foundation of them.
When I wake up in the morning, I see a half-built closet. It draws my attention more than anything else in my house now – and the reason is it so compelling are instructive.