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Archive for February 2011
More autobiography in outline form
Monday, February 7, 2011 by Jay T.
This entry follows on after the 2/6/2011 blog entry about what I said in a spiritual autobiography for the meeting two weeks ago.
Short on time, I skipped:
My call to return to the Northwest
The years in one of the small meetings in College Park Quarterly Meeting
A year in therapy
Firbank Farm
I did speak a
bout my journey to being a Christian and what God has opened to me.
• Grandma’s serene and helpful history in her Presbyterian church
• Friends’ School classes in Human Studies
• High school friends in the charismatic movement
• Seeking to experience that of God within me and others
• His reassurance: I’ve been here all along.
• YF’s I met on the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage, Elfrida, the Wilsons, Lionel, the 1652 country
• my brother’s challenges to honestly engage with the issues of Christian myth and spirituality
• reading the YFNA newsletter
• Ben’s invitation to fellowship with WYF Christians
• All your strength and cleverness is nothing next to my loving power; even so, my help is there for the everyday challenges you face. This is salvation. Read the rest of this entry »
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Outline of a spiritual autobiography
Sunday, February 6, 2011 by Jay T.
Two weeks ago I spoke to our meeting on my spiritual autobiography. The meeting does several of these a year, provided there are willing volunteers.
I began by explaining that I’d grown up in a nearby unprogrammed Friends meeting which was rather similar to our meeting. That I had become a Christian by convincement and that I would be trying faithfully to make the session one of sharing history and insights with my Friends, not an evangelical project. I explained that my language would be Christian, as that matches best what’s in my heart.
Then I opened up to questions, answers or topics people wanted to hear about. As I proceeded through my outline, I paid attention to those parts of it that might address those interests.
Here are the points I had written as an outline. I haven’t expanded these in writing, but might someday. If you’re interested in one or two, please ask for details, make suggestions or offer your related experiences in a comment.
- Childhood in an unprogrammed meeting. The influences of that community and some of those Friends.
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