Talking about Blogging In Meeting for Worship

Today in Meeting for Worship I sat down and right away I was quaking and really deep. I did not feel like everyone else was a long with me but I did not care. I was periodically called back to this deep since.

The second message of the day was about what if God was a blogger. God isn’t “God the Father” God is “God the Blogger.” This really stuck me. Some later gave ministry about how when people are in a community they become open and this person sort of said that if all we did was read we would be able to be open in the same way. I disagreed right away but sat with it for a long while.

I started to dismiss the whole ministry thing and then I started having a major feeling that something needed to be said but was sure it was not ministry. I thought most of my feelings were around having to leave this meeting in just three weeks and me grieving.

The strong feeling of ministry came back a last time right before meeting ended and I did not know what to do so I grabbed on to Kristina to try to settle myself but it was not helping so when meeting closed I sat there and took my time in closing for myself. During Afterthoughts I contemplated on what to say and then I just stood up (after being prompted by Kristina) and let spirit talk through me. I talked about how there is a group of people online that have created a community to look at Quakerism and that for me it is my part of my spiritual practice to get on QuakerQuaker.org every morning after I check my email.

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This is the first time that I have spoken in this meeting. I have grown up in this meeting and I think this is part of the reason. Kody and I had this conversation with my dad when he was here this last week about why we do not minister in the meetings we grow up in (maybe a post for later).