In Parker Palmer’s book on discernment, Let Your Life Speak, he writes of a time when he was struggling with his vocation, hoping and praying that “way would open” as Quaker tradition teaches. A wise elder suggested that often we find our way forward not from a clearly illuminated next step but from closures behind us. How is “way opening” for you, and what closures have caused your ways to bend?

Many thanks to Sally Ann Morris for a wonderful setting of this simple text. The canon option feels just right for our intersecting ways!

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