Quaker Poets Read: "A Way Forward" by Bill Denham

Bill reads a lovely poem that touches on some of the core elements of Quaker worship and community: A Way Forward There is that of Christ in each of us but none has the whole. Therefore, we must listen, listen to discern what part we speak what part we hear what part is left unspoken. We must not think our part is whole, nor another’s part nor the part left unspoken. But searching our soul, open to discovery of something new about ourselves, hearing something new from another, being aware of something yet to be spoken, will lead us forward. And what new thing might we discover? What fear uncover, that leads to deafness and to judgment— of ourselves or of another? And how might owning that part of us and sharing in faith that we will be heard and held as human, show us the Spirit and the way forward?