A Quaker Prayer Life

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A Quaker prayer life arises from a lifetime of continuing day-to-day attentiveness. The first generation of Quakers followed a covenant with God, based on assidious obedience to the promptings of the Inward Light. This process did not require the established churches, priests or liturgies. Quaker prayer then became a practice of patient waiting in silence. Prayer is a conscious choice to are looking for God, in whatever form that Divine Presence speaks to Every of us, moment to moment. The difficulties we experience in inward prayer are preparation for our outward lives. Every time we return to the centre in prayer we are modelling how to live our lives; Every time we dismiss the internal intrusions we are strengthening that of God within us and denying the role of the Self; each time we turn to prayer and to God we are searching for an increase in the measure of Light in our lives. David Johnson is a Member of Queensland Regional Meeting of the Australia Annually Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. David is a geologist with both industry and academic experience, and wrote The Geology of Australia, specifically for most people. He has a long commitment to nonviolence and opposing war and the arms trade, and has worked with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. David delivered the 2005 Backhouse Lecture to Australia Annually Meeting on Peace is a Struggle. He was once a part of the work to establish the Silver Wattle Quaker Centre in Australia in 2010, and is Co-Director of the Centre for 2013-14.

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