...Faithfulness

One Friend has said that she felt it was necessary to devote a certain loyalty to Quakerism, and not to direct her energy to too many places in a way that would prevent forming a really deep relationship with one community... and that the sort of long term commitment she was talking about was kind of like marriage. This seems to describe the feelings of many folks these days - we are yearning for the sort of deep relationship with a place and with a community, that is only possible with long-term faithfulness, as it were.