West Hills Friends West Hills Friends
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- Religion & Spirituality
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West Hills Friends is a Quaker meeting in Portland, Oregon. You can find more about us at www.westhillsfriends.org. Included on this page are words of people in our community, and visitors.
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"Align Ourselves With the Light," by Mark Pratt-Russum
Mark Pratt-Russum offers a message about paying attention to your heart and preparing for the situations of life. How has heart/mind/spirit attention prepared you to enter into situations differently? What possibilities emerge, in your imagination, if the process of heart/mind/spirit re-orientation were more widely practiced?
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"You Are Beautiful," by Jill Townley
Jill Townley shares a First Word about an encounter with a young woman on a recent bus trip on her morning commute.
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"Disrupting the Narrative" by Mark Pratt-Russum
Mark Pratt-Russum offers a message about feeling comfortable with being completely you. How have you become aware of the "normative" narratives that have influenced the way you interact with others? How does your spirituality challenge you to deepen the grace and understanding you extend to others?
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"Eclipses and Epiphanies" by Mark Pratt-Russum
Mark Pratt-Russum offers a message about eclipses and epiphanies and shares the poem “Spellbound” by Bethany Lee. What are the epiphanies you've had in your life? When have things come together, or connected in such a way to bring you Into a profound sense of a world filled with light? Are you hoping for an epiphany? What remains disconnected, or unsettled in your life? How are you actively inviting wonder into your spiritual life?
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"Resurrection Tones" by Leanne Benner
Leanne Benner shares a First Word about asking the question what difference does Jesus’ resurrection mean for us?
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"Metaphors" by Mica Coffin
Mica Coffin shares a message about how metaphors help us understand God. At the end of the message Mica speaks about a song called "God is a River," copyright Peter Mayer, that can be downloaded at petermayer.net.