{"id":2142,"date":"2021-11-28T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=2142"},"modified":"2022-01-09T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-09T09:27:01","slug":"retreat-sketches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/december-2021\/retreat-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Retreat Sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Anthea Richards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe the silent mind is the Meeting Point of the Human and Divine. I chose shells from my life-time collection for Friends to select one to look at, dropping all words in the mind \u2014 until you are in the present, just seeing the form.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2143\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image002.jpg 480w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image002-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2144\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001.jpg 480w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/image001-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0936-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2145\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0936-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0936-1.jpg 491w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/IMG_0936-1-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"312\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-left-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/december-2021\/quaker-autumn-retreat-october-2021\/\">Previous Article<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: right;\" width=\"312\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-right-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/december-2021\/quaker-legacy-at-the-autumn-retreat\/\">Next Article<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-medium fasc-type-glossy fasc-rounded-medium fasc-ico-before dashicons-arrow-up-alt fasc-style-bold\" style=\"background-color: #0315a3; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/december-2021\/\">Back to December 2021 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 512 \u2022 December 2021<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oxford Friends Meeting<br \/>\n43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"mailto:newsletter@oxfordquakers.org\">newsletter@oxfordquakers.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthea Richards I believe the silent mind is the Meeting Point of the Human and Divine. 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