Jade Souza is an attender at Camas Friends and in her second semester at Earlham School of Religion (ESR). In collaboration with ESR and in support of Jade's studies and calling, this is the second of three sermons Jade will give at CFC during the '20-'21 school year.

If you remove the yoke from among you,

the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil,

10 if you offer your food to the hungry

and satisfy the needs of the afflicted,

then your light shall rise in the darkness

and your gloom be like the noonday.

How have you experienced transfiguration? How have you come to see God in a new, fuller, better light? How have you come to see Jesus in a new, fuller, better light? How have you come to see another person in a new, fuller, better light? How have you come to see yourself in a new, fuller, better light?

Bethany Lee is a musician, poet, ocean-sailor, and recorded Quaker minister with SCYMF. She has worked as a worship and retreat leader, choral accompanist, hospice harpist, and performing artist and she brings the deep peace of her personal practice to life in sacred spaces.

A few thoughts about the experience of self-giving, listening, and responding when we meet for worship, as well as an invitation to bring our unique and personal experiences of the Divine to our reading of this Psalm…

Jonah 3

1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across.