online worship

There are webs in my garden,
delicately guy-wired from twigs to drainpipe,
easily captured in my two-dimensional photo,
the orb-weaver sitting proudly
at the lacy center, visible to all.

[This letter was abridged from a longer original, which you can find at: https://westernfriend.org/letters-marchapril-2022]

[This letter was abridged from a longer original, which you can find at: https://westernfriend.org/letters-marchapril-2022]

Dear Friends: In response to Anna Fritz’s article in support of in-person worship, I can only say, “That Friend speaks my mind.” I stopped sitting in front of a screen for meeting for worship when I discovered I could no longer be “present” there, nor pretend that I was.

[This letter was abridged from a longer original, which you can find at: https://westernfriend.org/letters-marchapril-2022]

As meetings consider how to reimagine worship, Friends have written movingly about the value of traditional in-person Quaker worship. As I consider these heartfelt thoughts, a song comes to mind from my Methodist days: “This Is My Father’s World.”