Sacrifice
October 2019
You can sacrifice and not love but you cannot love and not sacrifice. ―Kris Vallotton
Articles
The Wisdom Of Trees
This month we are taking on the gnarly topic of sacrifice. It is a concept that makes many of us uncomfortable, distrustful and a little bit surly, and rightly so. Read more »
American Sacrifice
Sacrifice is a powerful, ancient, evocative word that conjures images of animals slaughtered in rituals to bind a community together in a celebratory feast for a long-awaited harvest after a drought. Read more »
Always Faithful
I have learned about faithfulness and sacrifice as a result of a very strange journey I have been on since I inadvertently found some of the men who were in Vietnam with my older brother, 2nd Lt. Robert M. Christian Jr., “Bobby” to me, who was killed on April 11, 1969. Read more »
From Your Minister
The roots of violence: Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles. Read more »
REsources for Living
I confess I’ve never been a big fan of the concept of sacrifice. It’s always struck me as kind of punitive, like it’s morally superior to suffer than to enjoy life’s abundance. Read more »
The Sacrifices You Make
For many of our CLF members, their support is truly a sacrifice—not only members on fixed incomes who give what they can, but also our incarcerated members, for whom even the price of a stamp to write to a pen pal is a significant sacrifice. Read more »
Audio Recordings
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Food Chain
Give up pretending. Everything, you know, everything, sooner or later gets eaten… Read more »
Sacrifice
You can sacrifice and not love but you cannot love and not sacrifice. ―Kris Vallotton Read more »
Tending the Spirit
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Deep play is a form of tending to the spirit. We hope that through Quest, along with online worship, Facebook groups, questformeaning.org and our various other offerings, that the CLF provides a field where we can come together, play and explore. Read more →
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I Hear America Singing
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I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Read more →
Work & Play
September 2019
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ―Jerome K. Jerome
Articles
Working, Not Working, and Not Working Any More
One fine day in San Francisco, nearly 35 years ago now, I found myself down on Mission Street, standing in line at the unemployment office. Read more »
Tending the Spirit
Deep play is a form of tending to the spirit. We hope that through Quest, along with online worship, Facebook groups, questformeaning.org and our various other offerings, that the CLF provides a field where we can come together, play and explore. Read more »
Deep Play
Brian La Doone is a musher—a sled dog racer—in far northern Canada, which is polar bear country. Read more »
The Path of Play
Psychologist David Elkind, in his book The Power of Play, identifies several characteristics of play, including… Read more »
Full-Hearted Parenting
Last year my therapist started asking me at every visit, “You having any fun?” Read more »
Play, People. Just Play
The innocent mistake that keeps us caught in our own particular style of ignorance, unkindness, and shut-downness is that we are never encouraged to see clearly what is, with gentleness. Read more »
REsources for Living
“Do what you love,” the saying goes, “and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Read more »
Quest Audio Resources
You can listen to audio recordings of Quest Monthly, read back issues or get electronic versions of the text to share with friends (and much more) at questformeaning.org Read more »
Work & Play
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ―Jerome K. Jerome Read more »
Earth’s Crammed With Heaven
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And truly, I reiterate, . .
nothing’s small! Read more →
Thank You, Janet!
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Janet Lane, who has done the layout and design work for Quest for the last 32 years, is retiring from the position following this issue. Read more →
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O Wonder!
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A garden amidst the flames.
My heart embraces every form. Read more →
