Showing posts with label seeking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeking. Show all posts

Wednesday, 21 March 2018

What Do We Seek?

A section of a jigsaw puzzle, all of the pieces blank and white. One piece is missing.
What do we seek, we Friends of Truth, we Friends of the Light, we Quakers?
We were Seekers first, before we were Quakers, after all, in the genetic origins of our Religious Society. But then, we were also Ranters, in part. Both strands of thought in that chaotic time of the mid-seventeenth century are seen in us, today. There is even a soupçon of the Levellers and Diggers about our origins, I am quite sure.
If we were Seekers, did we find, and stop Seeking? To suppose that search is over strikes me as the most profound religious hubris. So it is that we continue, as a group, to seek.
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