truth from George Fox?

that of God within?

Quaker understanding embodies hard truth:

can it really be that each of us

has that of God within us?

if so, then how about what else is within us?

how do we differentiate between the different leadings

and thus find and follow the path

back toward the divine, forward with the divine?

I love to help produce a play, a musical, 

to support the performing arts,

for me, that of God within is strikingly visible

when a young person gathers the best within

and ventures forth a bit of song,

a fragment of a play, an expression of a movement,

then the fragment can metamorphose into the production,

climax, and pass on,

what I love to remember is how well the best within came out,

to let us joy in the expression of what can be released

when we acknowledge and express

the drive to rightness inherent

in what the Quaker world sees 

as “that of God” within.

by Henry H. Walker

October 13, ‘17