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Transformative experiences can happen when the Living Presence has adequate time to remove the spiritual cobwebs and to shine a Light on the deep calls that are beckoning us to transform ourselves, our community, and the world. It is God’s work to awaken us to God’s wisdom, guidance, and love. These extended meetings for worship can provide a seedbed, a crucible, for God to do that awakening. Marcelle Martin’s Pendle Hill Pamphlet, An Invitation to a Deeper Communion, describes the beginnings of these extended worship experiences in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Friends are free to get up and move around, to lie down on the benches, to use the bathroom, to take a walk outside and rejoin the worship as led. Following the worship we eat our brown-bag lunches sociably, and then return to the meeting room for worship sharing about our experiences of the morning. We usually gather at 9, and finish by 2:30 or 3:00. Friends are welcome to come for the whole day or any part of it.
