Author: clfuu

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
― Harry S. Truman

When have you gotten in trouble for telling the truth?

Quaker prayer practice includes “holding in the light,” envisioning a person who is struggling wrapped in the Divine Light they affirm within and beyond each person.

Who will you hold in the light today?

“We…do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”
― Thomas Jefferson

How do you participate in government?

If life is a zero-sum game, then any gain by another person is our loss—any person moving to the center pushes us aside. Politics tends to promote this world view. We need religion to remind us that none of us is replaceable, that no one’s dignity is diminished when someone else’s dignity is affirmed.

What religious practices help you to remember both your own worth and that of others?

“If you can feel that staying human is worthwhile, even when it can’t have any result whatever, you’ve beaten them.”
― George Orwell

What helps you to stay human when it feels like forces are conspiring against you?