{"id":2859,"date":"2022-04-28T02:39:04","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T01:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/?page_id=2859"},"modified":"2023-02-09T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-09T15:14:47","slug":"reflections-during-a-zoom-meeting-3rd-april","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/reflections-during-a-zoom-meeting-3rd-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections during a zoom meeting  3 April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>Roy Bateman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faces are beginning to appear.<br \/>\nWe are here to connect and to grow in that connection.<br \/>\nWe are here to feel the certainty of love<br \/>\nIn an uncertain, frightening world.<br \/>\nSometimes we feel cramped, withdrawn and defensive \u2013<br \/>\nBut not here, upheld by the love of Friends<br \/>\nAnd by a greater love we try to understand.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2882\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2882\" style=\"width: 792px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2882\" src=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May-Flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"792\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May-Flowers.jpg 792w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May-Flowers-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/May-Flowers-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by SL Granum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr>\n<p>More articles in this month&#8217;s newsletter:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"lcp_catlist\" id=\"lcp_instance_0\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">May 2022<\/a><\/li><li class=\"current\">Reflections during a zoom meeting  3 April<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/meeting-for-worship-24-april\/\">Meeting for Worship 24 April<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/the-politics-of-place-and-some-local-witnessing\/\">The politics of place \u2013 and some local witnessing<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/monthly-appeal-may-2022\/\">Monthly Appeal May 2022<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/friendly-persuasion\/\">&#8216;Friendly Persuasion&#8217;<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/mutual-support-group-getting-older\/\">Mutual Support Group &#8211; 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color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/\">Back to May 2022 Newsletter Main Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Forty-Three<\/em> Newsletter \u2022 Number 517 \u2022 May 2022<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<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright 2022, Oxford Quakers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Bateman Faces are beginning to appear. We are here to connect and to grow in that connection. We are here to feel the certainty of love In an uncertain, frightening world. Sometimes we feel cramped, withdrawn and defensive \u2013 But not here, upheld by the love of Friends And by a greater love we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/may-2022\/reflections-during-a-zoom-meeting-3rd-april\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reflections during a zoom meeting  3 April<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":2847,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-2022-05-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4275,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2859\/revisions\/4275"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxfordquaker.com\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}