Walking Each Other Home

Guest Speaker: Bethany Lee

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.

She is a regular attender at West Hills Friends and lives with her husband and one of her two grown daughters in Lafayette, OR in a house at the edge of the woods. 

She has written two poetry collections, The Breath Between: An Invitation to Mystery and Joy, released in 2019 from Fernwood Press and the forthcoming Etude for Belonging: Poems for Courage and Hope. She's slowly working on a memoir about the year her family spent traveling the west coast of the US and Mexico in a tiny sailboat and several dear friends would like for her to stop writing quite so much poetry and just get on with the sea stories already.

Ephesians 5:1-2 (NIV): Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

Queries:

When in your life has someone accompanied you on a journey–a literal trip to another place or a more internal transition? What did you find helpful in how they stayed with you?

How do you respond when you find yourself confused or uncertain? What does it feel like in your body, your mind, or your spirit when you find your way?